Here's yet another chatterbox client. This one has the advantage of taking up as little or as much screen real estate as you want. It defaults to 240x320 and to my eye is quite usable at that size, but you can set whatever size you want (including setting two pre-set resize buttons). It's useful for pda viewing, or, on larger screens, as a small window alongside other windows so you can surf (or, heaven forfend, work) while chatting.

MCB doesn't automtically display other users or private messages, but it has a pulldown menu that allows you to view them on command, and also to view CBhistory. You can customize a bookmarks menu to launch pages in the main window, in the MCB window, or in a new window. MCB also has a "pause" feature which leaves the mcb client open but stops refreshing the chat screen until manually restarted.

Ok, now for the bad news: it requires javascript. It uses only a couple of small functions, but ones that make the small real estate usable.

Note: it would be really nice if this could work as a real remote like Zedulator - that would mean user-settable targets for the raw chat output so that instead of always opening a _new window for links in the chatterbox itself, users could opt for a named target, that way all links could open in a single window operated by the MCB remote.

Try a demo or grab the source files tarball

Note: the demos assume you are logged in to www.perlmonks.org, if you grab the tarball, you can replace that with your normal login site.

In reply to MCB - Minimalist Chatterbox by jZed

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