See http://pthbb.org/cb/ for an example of most of this (maybe more as I get around to it) implemented. For the paranoid (if not you should be! ;-) You can view the source for http://pthbb.org/cb/blather.php3 via a symlink at http://pthbb.org/cb/blather.

Yes yes PHP, oh the horror. But frankly I'm not doing any heavy lifting and it's a pip-squeak box (Pentium 120 with 128M running more a few choice daemons)

Anyways I plan on using this (at least until/if ever) the equivalent is officially sanctioned, been using fullpage chat

PS> It seems the adfu in the original framed chat node broke in the last few days since this thread began....