Jun 11
Well Lace, the little Ajax chat app, has had a decent run the past two years. Not only has Lace been downloaded over 40,000 times, it was also featured in the wiki/O'Reilly book Ajax Design Patterns. Not too shabby for some hastily commingled code tackling a relatively unoriginal idea.
Alas, the time has come to put Lace to rest. Interest in Lace has slowed, and I haven't had the time or the desire to give it the attention it deserves. As much as I hate to remove content, the blog and forum will be offline as of tonight. The Lace homepage will remain online, along with the most recent release downloads.
So long, Lace. It was fun while it lasted.
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BlueSparc Chat Lace Mod
Don't go!
Isn't there anyone you could pass the torch?
Re: Don't go!
Also, no one has stepped up offering to take over (or join) the official project.
I will step up to hosting the forum
My php is not up to par, but I would be willing to host that support page on my phpbb forum.
My hardware sucks and I suck but I really found that support site really helpful.
Let me know if you're interested?
Bob
I'll host it, if you want...
I realized that I missed web development when I looked at jQuery earlier today. It's still fun if you're paying attention, and I haven't been. Time to fix that. Send me an email if you want to host this rig at, say, http://flaver.com/chat/. (This will probably end poorly -- no good deed goes unpunished)
Thanks for the code, my wife in particular seems to have an affinity for it.
I will be adding on to lace..
I will probably release the source soon.
Just check my website, thats a link to it. I just started, so not very far, should turn out pretty good.
any problem
Well...this is depressing!
Back in March our server started acting up and since the university computer staff wasn't interest in helping and I was tired of serving as both website designer and administrator AND server technician (all this being volunteer work for no extra pay, mind you), I just shut the thing down and have been working on my own off-campus website. I got to thinking it might be nice to add a Lace chatroom and came by to see how things were coming along and to get the latest version. Oh well.
Anyway...if anyone is still working on the software, please contact me! I don't consider myself an expert PHP programmer, but I do have a bit of experience with hacking other people's code, ha ha. (On our website, I hacked the Lace code to grab and display usernames from our system and not allow students to change names while chatting, etc.) I have a .Mac email account under the same name I'm posting this under. Hoping to hear from someone!
URL cutting?
Problems with Internet Explorer?
Since I'm a Mac user, I'd forgotten a very important problem that I never got around to working on when we were using Lace on our university e-Learning website: Although everything looks fine in every browser I've tested Lace in, in the version of Windows IE that we've had at the university over the last two years, the chat message display area and the online users area "slide up and down" one another...with no pattern that I can discern...with the message area usually ending up at the bottom of the page. This jumping up and down is very annoying and considerably lessens the enjoyment for the user.
The problem, of course, is in IE's non-standard handling of CSS (I've run into similar problems with layouts of my own using float values), but rather than get into the CSS right now, I'm going to try a quick hack (in preparation for tomorrow) using a three-row table to surround the various parts of the display (top link header, msg and users display, input form). I'll let you know tomorrow afternoon how it worked, but if anyone else has noticed this problem (and even better, come up with a work-around), could you contact me by email? (Address particulars given above.)
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I've picked up Lace!
Another chat for your website
Enter socket7.net Chat room
hello
Another ajax chat.
I am looking for any kind of feedback, and by now test customers as well.
website here: www.basechat.com
demo chat room her: www.basechat.com/demo1.aspx
Any kind of feedback is much appreciated: anbo@basechat.com
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If I had known the forum was to be taken down I would have liked to pick it up where it left off by continuing to host the project.
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