Implementing a Facebook like popup chat.

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Hi everybody,
you might have used facebook, or Orkut. There is a pop up for a chat session. How could you implement it?

Posted 4-Feb-11 3:32am

Updated 4-Feb-11 4:34am

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Manfred Rudolf Bihy · Answer 1 · 2011-02-04T04:29:00

I'm not sure where your issues are so I just give you my 2cts:

To achive the effect of a system tray where the chat status is displayed I'd use the tips on this page in order to glue a HTML container to a fixed screen position: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedPosition.html[^]
On the page I'd regularily poll the chat server via AJAX if there are any chat requests for the logged in user
The chat server is something different all together and would really inflate this answer tremendously

Best Regards,
Manfred

Henry Minute · Answer 2 · 2011-02-04T03:58:00

By asking on those sites.

That will be your best source for information since by definition everyone there is a user. Not everyone here is.

Posted 4-Feb-11 3:58am