[Adium-devl] Jabber-compatible services (was: Re: Some disclosure and some ideas.)

[Juan Manuel Palacios]

On Dec 8, 2006, at 10:21 AM, Andreas Monitzer wrote:

>
> The only thing the plugin could do is to add @<own domain> to the JID
> when there's no @ in the name, but that would work for any XMPP
> server (for instance, if I'd try to add "steve" to my roster, it'd
> change it to "steve at monitzer.com").

	This is an interesting idea/suggestion which I don't know if it's 
already implemented or not (are you explaining how things work or 
making a suggestion on how they *should* work?). If @<domain> happens 
to be mandatory for Jabber accounts, then for the GTalk contact type a 
suitable rationale could be: Adium checks if there's an @ symbol in the 
GTalk ID field of the "Add Contact" pannel and makes sure the string 
reads "@gmail.com" exactly, adapting it accordingly otherwise (I can 
see many entering a potentially erroneous "@gmail" string after the 
ID); if there's no "@gmail.com" string, Adium adds it behind the scene 
for the uneducated user.... if said string does happen to be mandatory, 
of course.

	I believe this rationale could be extended to other account types if 
such checks aren't already performed: when adding .Mac contacts, for 
instance, the "@mac.com" string could be validated and/or added after 
the screen name, again if it happens to be mandatory to work with said 
contact type (read below).

>
> You can talk to non-.mac-users from a .mac-account, so how would you
> tell the difference? On AIM, there's no mandatory @ in the screenname.

	Are you sure this is the case for .Mac? I know .Mac is AIM based and 
communicates just fine with non .Mac contacts (AIM itself, ICQ, 
others). But last I heard, <screenname> was not the same as 
<screenname>@mac.com on AIM the network (maybe the "johndoe at mac.com" 
string --with the @ symbol somehow escaped-- is considered different as 
a whole from plain "johndoe"?)... But, of course, whoever told me that 
(who was it?) could have been drunk and all this paragraph might seem 
like pure nonesense to you and others here ;-)

>
> andy
>

	Regards,...


-jmpp