HTML5 Chat room

Once again I would like to raise the topic of the functionality of the chat room, or should I say, the lack of functionality.

Has anyone overcome this using a mod or plugin of sorts? Has anyone found an HTML5 alternative? I can't seem to find anything in the Market and have given up hope of Boonex trying to source a solution in v7. I have brought this up before only to have it swept away under the "Too hard to handle" Boonex carpet.

It seems as though they are waiting until v8.

Can anyone suggest an alternative solution besides changing platforms?

Prof.

Do you need video... or just plain text chat?

Well it seems that before the increase in the use of iPads, tablets and phones to access my site, there was regular traffic in the chat room every evening where the majority would use text, a smaller proportion would use audio and text and there would be a few using video, audio and text.

If it is at all possible, I would like to re-implement all three again, i.e. audio, video and text but of course it would have to work well with mobile devices.

Am I asking for too much? I guess text will do at a push. 

Any suggestions?

I've used a java chat product called addonChat with a vBulletin site in the past.  It worked well, but not enough people used it, so I ditched it.  For text only chat, it's worth a look,

http://www.addonchat.com/

what we really need though is non flash chat that integrates with the dolphin user profiles and membership levels etc...

this topic has been raised So many times over years... every now and again we will get told something is in the works, maybe for D8 maybe before but never any movement on it.

we need it for D7. I imagine lots of sites will not upgrade to D8 if they are highly customised. 

This is a key feature that is just being overlooked for some reason by Boonex.

Thanks for that link houstonlively. Will look into it. Does it use profiles and membership levels as Daihlo mentioned?

Very poignant words Daihlo. We all seem to hear passing talk like "I hear Andrew is looking into it" but if he is then it's time he took what he looked at and made it work for v7 because I am sure we aren't the only Dolphin users that need this now.

It would be great if Andrew actually took note of this and made a definitive comment that gave us real answers about this issue.

Andrew, do you have any comments to add about your plans for the Chatroom in D7 and D8? As it stands now we are not getting any response to the issue of browser compatibility.

What is your grand plan for the Chatroom? Are you phasing it out?

 Houston, if you're still using chat, which text only one did you go for?

The addonchat one keeps crashing my browser screen when trying to view their demo's! not quite sure why...!

 RE:

 My major web project is a rather daunting project, and I'm not sure if real time chat will part of it.  I do know that there will be no place for chat in the traditional sense where people just blabber around.  I may have a future application for 1 on 1 video training sessions where people would pay for personalized educational material.  It would be full duplex HD A/V

 sounds interesting. Some work also !

I used to run a site based on dolphin (sports related) where something similar was used for seminars. more half duplex though.

there was no real integration, just embedding an external system into dolphin... 

For what I have in mind, I would need a video channel, an audio channel, and a data channel that would send sensor data from the client to the "instructor".  It's not my application, but for instance: If you have an instructor showing a student how to tune an engine, the instructor can not only see what the student is doing, but also things like engine rpm, oil pressure, engine temperature, etc. Sensor data may have to piggyback on the audio signal somehow.

 the webrtc seems like a great idea for your example. Having a site that can read the sensor data and display it in a browser and embedding the peer to peer video chat in the webpage seems like it would be a viable solution. I have no clue how you would connect the vehicle to the computer in order to get the readings, but if someone knows how to do that already, you may not be too far off on your idea.

I have thought about this concept for the medical field. If a patient is in the hospital and hooked up to a monitor, then their doctor can view the information from the monitor on their computer at home and be able to have video chatting capabilities with either the patient in their room, or the nurse at the Nurse's Station (or in the patients room).

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 The sensors will just interface to the computer or mobile device via usb or bluetooth.  The tricky part is getting the sensor data into the web based app. and I need to investigate ways to do that.