4 Aug
2002
4 Aug
'02
2:51 p.m.
Questions: - Good and easy to maintain irc-servers?
the bog-standard open source IRC servers that are used all over the internet are usually "fire and forget". you configure and start the server and it runs and that's the end of it.
- Good java irc-client?
why java? most if not all jave clients are unstable and clunky. why not just instruct people do download and use a *real* IRC client for their platform? ok, you might lose the convenient "user clicks here on the intranet and the java client fires up and does the right thing", but how important is that compared to all those issues that you will come up against, inevitably, with java client, such as:: - instability - platform compatibility/browser compatibility jens