Ajax jabber/XMPP client recommendations (real experience only please) ! [closed]
I'm unsure of its maintainership status, but I usually point people who ask me this question to TrophyIM. It is a small and themeable chat client written on top of Strophe.js.
If you want group chat, you can try Speeqe (see it in action here), which is also based on Strophe.js.
Most people have very specific needs in the web domain, and I think this contributes to the lack of generally useful web-based IM clients. You can easily write one yourself, and there are several examples of such systems in my book, Professional XMPP Programming with JavaScript and jQuery.
Disclaimer: I wrote Strophe.js and the book so I am obviously biased.
We just released Candy under MIT-License, an AJAX Jabber Client built with Strophe.js.
Why Candy?
- Focused on real-time multi-user chatting
- Easy to configure, easy to run, easy to use
- Highly customizable
- 100% well-documented JavaScript source code
- Built for Jabber (XMPP), using famous technologies
- Used and approved in a productive environment with up to 400concurrent users
- Works with all major web browsers including IE7
Take a look :)
If you are ready to go ahead and build out custom UI for your chat application + doing some PHP/Javascript/XMPP stuff you may checkout Jaxl library. It have several examples on how to build a web based client for real-time chat.
Alternately you can simply try out ready to use chat client from Jaxl IM which is a generic/scalable client written using Jaxl library.