I am late, but I didn't want to leave this unanswered:

It is not fair that a shortcoming in the site should be patched in a chat client

I'm not sure entirely what this is referring to, but what I meant to say in my post is that a separate login on this client is only required because browsers do not send cookies to sites other than the originating one nor do they allow Javascript to read cookies for sites other than that which the Javascript code originated from. This is for security reasons.

If the client was hosted on PM, and it's supposed to be one day, then the Javascript will have access to the cookie you already have, and will not require logging in separately.

Makeshifts last the longest.

In reply to Re^6: A new chatterbox flavour by Aristotle
in thread A new chatterbox flavour by Aristotle

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