www/adium.im 810:f0891e28bff5: Minor corrections.
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details: http://hg.adium.im/www/adium.im/rev/f0891e28bff5
revision: 810:f0891e28bff5
branch: adiumx.com
author: Robert Vehse <robertvehse at fastmail.fm>
date: Mon Aug 19 21:08:06 2013 +0200
Minor corrections.
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diff -r 0f6db86f420a -r f0891e28bff5 help/pgs/Miscellaneous-AVSkypeSupport.html
--- a/help/pgs/Miscellaneous-AVSkypeSupport.html Tue Aug 13 00:22:16 2013 +0200
+++ b/help/pgs/Miscellaneous-AVSkypeSupport.html Mon Aug 19 21:08:06 2013 +0200
@@ -47,9 +47,10 @@
<h3>Skype support</h3>
</div>
<div class="taskboxtext">
- <p>Yes and no.</p>
- <p>Yes: The third-party <a href="http://xtras.adium.im/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=5011">Skype Plugin</a> allows Adium to use the <a class="ext_link" href="https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc">Skype API</a> to display your Skype contacts within Adium and let you chat with them via text-based instant messaging. By the nature of the Skype API, it requires that the Skype program be installed and running.</p>
- <p>No: It's not supported natively within Adium (i.e., without a plugin). The library that we use to support most protocols, <a href="https://trac.adium.im/wiki/LibPurple">libpurple</a>, doesn't support Skype at all right now, not even for chat. Until it does Adium most likely won't, either.</p>
+ <p>Adium does not natively (i.e., without a plugin) support Skype.</p>
+ <p>However, there is an unofficial third-party <a href="http://xtras.adium.im/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=5011">Skype Plugin</a> which allows Adium to use the <a class="ext_link" href="https://developer.skype.com/Docs/ApiDoc">Skype API</a> to display your Skype contacts within Adium and let you chat with them via text-based instant messaging. By the nature of the Skype API, it requires that the Skype program be installed and running.</p>
+ <p><strong>Why does Adium not officially support Skype?</strong></p>
+ <p>The library that we use to support most protocols, <a href="https://trac.adium.im/wiki/LibPurple">libpurple</a>, doesn't support Skype at all right now, not even for chat. Until it does Adium most likely won't, either.</p>
<p>Keep in mind that Skype is a proprietary, closed protocol, so it must be reverse-engineered before third-party clients like Pidgin and Adium can use it. Protocols like OSCAR (which AIM and ICQ are based on) and MSN have already been reverse-engineered, but they're much older than Skype, and reverse-engineering is hard. It will take a long time and won't happen at all unless someone chooses to take interest in it and dedicate significant time to the effort.</p>
<p><strong>What about the Skype API?</strong></p>
<p>Using the Skype API, as the Skype Plugin does, means that Skype must be running. We don't accept piggybacking on the official client as a substitute.</p>
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