[Adium-devl] Adium iPhone

[David Smith]

Not that this entirely invalidates your point, but webkit is well over  
an order of magnitude faster than it was then.



On Jan 22, 2009, at 4:23 PM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adiumx.com> wrote:

> On 2009-01-22, at 08:39, David Smith wrote:
>> What does Adium for the iPhone actually mean?
>
> Since we'll have to start clean anyway, I think we should start small:
>
> - A limited set of services. AIM, MSN, Yahoo!, the XMPP family, and  
> ICQ. Bonjour would also be extremely handy on an iPhone.
> - No push or related functionality. If we start small, there's a  
> chance that Apple's push API won't be available yet by the time we  
> deploy, anyway.
> - Almost no Xtras. Status icons: Two sets (colors and B&W) and  
> that's it. Maybe sound sets. Otherwise, WYSIAYG.
> - No WebKit Message View. Think back to the 0.50 days: We heavily  
> debated pursuing WebKit because it was measurably slower than the  
> Standard (Cocoa-drawn) Message View on the machines of the day. That  
> includes my 450 MHz G4 Cube. The iPhone is about as fast as my Cube.
> - Transcription. We'd need to pass transcripts to desktop Adium at  
> sync time. I have no idea whether that's possible. Users must be  
> able to turn this off and burninate all transcripts, since not  
> everyone uses desktop Adium.
>
> We can add more later—not just push (when it's ready and reliable),  
> but also more services as we prove the reliability of the main ones. 
>  Facebook would be the first one to add; the above plan gives us tim 
> e to pound on it on the desktop first.
>
> Design-wise:
> - Root view is a contact list.
> - Tapping a contact takes you to a chat with that contact.
> - Three filters (segmented control at the bottom of the CL): Chats  
> Only, Online Contacts, All Contacts.
> - Completely eat any distinction between services. The only  
> exception should be a segmented control (or other UI) at the top of  
> the chat view for switching which service you're chatting with them  
> on.
>
> Future features:
> - In the chat view, allow rotation to landscape. Some people prefer  
> that orientation for typing.
>  There won't be room in landscape to show the message view and  
> inputline at the same time, so we'd need to either provide a way to  
> switch between message view and inputline (perhaps a couple of  
> finger-sized buttons at the right side of the inputline), or show  
> the inputline only, along with a count of waiting messages.
>
>
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