Add links to the development mailing list and IRC, as well as a web-irc link

[gmaxwell]

This should improve the transparency of the development process some,
if it turns out that it's bringing too many overly-green people
we can redirect it to some more beginner oriented locations later.

[saivann]

ACK, very useful. You could fix "Core developers" at the same time if you feel it's worth.

[saivann]

The IRC chat window seems to work in all browsers. But it's not working great for mobiles. So perhaps applying a class on it that would hide it only on mobiles could do the trick.

[gmaxwell]

I could alternatively do the web interface non-inline. That might work better on mobile. Can you try the freenode webinterface full page and let me know if that works better?

[luke-jr]

Jappix also has a Facebook-style "docked to the bottom" chat applet, which does nothing until the user clicks it.

[saivann]

The website is mobile optimized. So people cannot zoom-in or zoom-out. And the layout scale based on available screen size. Thus, the problem is that the webchat has a fixed width and height, so it overflows the website and the visitor cannot see it entirely on the screen.

Using this code instead fixes most of the issue. However, the captcha is still too wide for mobiles in portrait mode so I intentionnally make it overflow a little bit. Visitors have to turn their mobiles to landscape and it that case to have it working comfortably.

<p>Development discussion takes place on github and the <a href="http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_name=bitcoin-development">bitcoin-development</a> mailing list at sourceforge. Less formal development discussion happens on irc.freenode.net #bitcoin-dev (&rarr;<a href="" onclick="document.getElementById('chatbox').innerHTML='<iframe style=width:98%;min-width:400px;height:400px src=\'http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=bitcoin-dev\' />';return false;">web interface</a>; <a href="http://bitcoinstats.com/irc/bitcoin-dev/logs/">logs</a>).</p>

[saivann]

We can also just link to it and let the visitor exit the site to go on freenode webchat. The result is working and scaling. But extremely small on screen however.

[saivann]

Regardless of what we choose, mobile users cannot scroll.

[gmaxwell]

Should we perhaps hide the link entirely for mobile then? (e.g. is it going to be more frustrating than helpful?)

[saivann]

Personally, I wouldn't use IRC on a mobile.. But I'm often surprised how much people use mobiles where I consider them inefficient. I think that the solution I suggested is good enough for someone who want to use it, while being still fully compatible with regular computers. Thus, why not keeping it?

It think it's more about the fact that this will increase people on IRC constantly using SMS languages.

[saivann]

I pushed your branch with fixes for mobiles. We can choose to disable webirc on mobiles if needed in the future.