Did you know of project "aether" and "xpoa" which add XMPP support for XUL?

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Did you know of project "aether" and "xpoa" which add XMPP support for XUL?

Unread post by Schimon » 2025-04-27, 17:11

OpenAether is primarily a toolkit for XMPP/Jabber developers. It is designed to be cross platform and flexible. There are several projects to make this happen. oapr is the platform abstraction layer. oajabber provides a flexible c++ api to the XMPP/Jabber protocol and its extensions. xpoa is the primary UI layer that integrates into the XUL/XPCOM framework.

xpoa is an XPCOM wrapper of oajabber. It provides XMPP/Jabber support for the mozilla platform.

aether will provide a XUL interface to the XMPP/Jabber network. Currently, it is pretty void of functionality, so stayed tuned.
http://openaether.org/projects.html

http://openaether.org/xpoa.html

http://openaether.org/aether.html
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Re: Did you know of project "aether" and "xpoa" which add XMPP support for XUL?

Unread post by Moonchild » 2025-04-27, 19:01

Moved to "general discussion" since it was misplaced in browser development.
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Re: Did you know of project "aether" and "xpoa" which add XMPP support for XUL?

Unread post by Mæstro » 2025-04-27, 22:53

An XMPP fork of Ambassador would be delightful. Since three weeks ago, I have no longer been able to log into my XMPP account through Gajim 1·2, and an alternative which preserves traditional user interfacing, unlike later Gajim versions, would be ideal. If anybody is interested, I would be happy to serve as beta tester.
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Re: Did you know of project "aether" and "xpoa" which add XMPP support for XUL?

Unread post by Basilisk-Dev » 2025-04-28, 13:31

There is also the OneTeam XMPP client, which appears to be built on top of a really old version of XULRunner and runs as an extension like Ambassador.

If someone is interested it might be worth looking into forking and updating it, although I imagine it might take a lot of effort to get it up and running on top of UXP. https://github.com/processone/oneteam
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