Talk:Comparison of IRC clients

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Archives

Archive 1.

DCC

It seems like there is more to DCC than I thought, enough to warrant its own table, perahps. These things could be covered as dcc subtypes: Normal, Resume, Passive, DCCServer, RDC, Reverse?, Secure. And for each of these there might be send, get, chat, fserve, whiteboard, it seems. I am not qualified to deal with all of that, but perhaps someone who knows more about this could take care of the dcc portion. Amaurea 11:06, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

I agree, we really need a DCC Resume table, its function is very important, but I do not know how to add tables, someone can do it? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 189.77.102.18 (talk) 21:37, 25 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

no problem. I help with the tables. made something in html/excel/pages/whatever; or give me the header and i will include the information in the comparison! mabdul 0=* 10:30, 26 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I am the 189.77.102.18, I only know that the ChatZilla does not support DCC RESUME because of their FAQ http://chatzilla.hacksrus.com/faq/ and Bugzilla, bug 285630, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=285630 and that mIRC, PIRCH, Visual IRC, IaIRC, supports DCC RESUME because of the mIRC document, http://www.mirc.com/help/dccresum.txt , Visual IRC confirms its supports to DCC RESUME in the Features page http://www.visualirc.net/features.php , sorry, I do not know about other clients, only the information about clients that I said is enough to create a table?

RDC protocol

Documentation of RDC protocol: http://www.sysreset.com/rdcc-protocol.txt 210.168.185.69 13:07, 22 September 2005 (UTC)[reply]

reverse spec: http://cvs.prbh.org/cgi/viewcvs.cgi/*checkout*/epic4/doc/DCC_REVERSE?rev=1.4

Scripts

Shouldn't there be a table for extendablity via scripts?

Miranda

Under Features, Miranda should have a note (7) stating that multiserver support isn't thru the plugin itself, but by using the 'copy dll-hack' as it's called in the Miranda article, for completeness. I hope a Wiki experienced will add that.

About UTF-8 support

I grepped latest sourcecode of BitchX (ircii-pana-1.1-final.tar.gz) and EPIC (epic4-2.6 and epic5-0.3.4) and there was no mention about UTF-8 or Unicode. So, why on earth this article claims they have UTF-8 support?

--juhtolv 14:54, 16 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

More Info

This is most useful! However some (to me) critical details are currently missing:

download file size
is installation necessary
which versions of win will it run on (out of the box)

If I could answer the above I would... but as yet I cant. Tabby 10:12, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]

How about adding new features in the list

Spell checking
Incremental finding
history/chat-log
Auto updates

Mabdul (talk) 13:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

DCC file send supports router port forwarding

--Ubercoder (talk) 04:06, 20 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

More IRC Clients

This is a list of any irc clients not yet included in the tables. Add to it if you find any.

Tinyirc
Nirc —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tabby (talk • contribs) 10:17, 2 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Mibbit [1] (Web ajax irc client) Axod (talk) 01:33, 7 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
ThrashIRC [2] (windows client)

Also this old fast one:

hirc Windows based, very small (580 kb) --R2cyberpunk (talk) 21:01, 1 February 2008 (UTC)[reply]

why not adding: emule, Morpheus, Shareaza? Mabdul (talk) 13:44, 9 May 2008 (UTC) in the irc-template are following clients, that are not listed in here: fire, MacIrssi, Microsoft Comic Chat, PIRCh, Instantbird, jIRC, naim, ERC[reply]

in the Comparison of instant messaging clients are following: funpidgin (have the same results as gaim, because of a fork), Pork client, Qnext Mabdul (talk) 14:39, 9 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Questions

What is MD5 password hashing? VFD642 (talk) 19:26, 10 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Moss

--Pamreedy (talk) 13:42, 30 August 2008 (UTC)I have moss growing around my lilly-of-the-valley plants. My questions is; Will the lillys multiply, stay the same, or get "choked" out by the moss? I can move the moss if it's going to stop my lillys from spreading. Any advice will be much appreciated. THANK YOU. "Luvslife" jbreedy@mchsi.com--Pamreedy (talk) 13:42, 30 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Interface?

I'd recommend to also include the "interface" with the clients. Since there are some CLI clients and some GUI (which is enough for Windows users but sometimes has to be split into Qt, GTK, ...) Maybe something like this:

CLI
GUI - Java
GUI - Windows
GUI - Qt
GUI - GTK+

whereas, of course, "Windows" is an addition which may include others. It's just for reasons of understanding - Windows users may be confused by specific terms.

It's just a proposal, aaand the table in the article itself has quite some width. I don't want to tinker about with that for now, rather than this proposal to be discussed :)
• Lirion (Λιριων, Лирион, ليريون) ^wtf? • 12:53, 28 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]

title

I hate how all these pages are called "comparison of X," even though they're not necessarily comparisons. They're tables of product features; they need not be used to compare anything at all. It could just be used to reference a single product's features.

I could create a two column table listing words and their definitions, that doesn't make it a word comparison (unless the reader chooses to use it that way). 68.42.72.226 (talk) 09:48, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

how would you call it / what is a comparison for you? --mabdul 0=* 12:33, 10 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

leafChat?

leafChat is a very good client for windows. I don't know about other oses, but I use it on my flash disk. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.100.82.232 (talk) 18:11, 15 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

feel free to write first an article ;) --mabdul 0=* 02:02, 16 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]