Friday, February 17, 2006

Follow-up on GMail integrated chat client

Just following up on the post I made last week about gmail getting an integrated pure-html chat client for GTalk...

My account finally got updated with the goods sometime while I wasn't looking. First, I'd just like to mention that it is slick as shit! Very impressive stuff. It is completely functional and integrates bitchingly well into GMail. Its worth kicking around just to see the magic the google team have performmed.

However, there are a couple drawbacks:
1) Not a big deal for me, but if you want to do voice chat, then you have to stick with the classic GTalk client
2) No Safari support! WTF? When trying to use it in Apple's browser, the talk stuff looked as if it simply did not exist. I understand with the tricks they are doing that pulling it off will be on a browser-by-browser basis, but I do hope they can find some time to work Safari in.

But seriously, I could go on and on about this thing, but just check it out for yourself.

On the off chance that a human being is actually reading my blog....let me know if you need/want a gmail account.

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