Comments on: Adium: Chatting With Style

By: Matěj Cepl

Matěj Cepl — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 16:34:59 +0000

You said in comment 7 (that’s Mon 19 Dec 2005):
> The theme isn”t quite ready for release, but when it is, I”ll certainly be happy to make it available.

Are they ready now?

By: Webkrauts » JavaScript jenseits des Browsers

Webkrauts » JavaScript jenseits des Browsers — Tue, 04 Jul 2006 10:51:29 +0000

[...] Es ist immer wieder interessant zu beobachten, wenn Webstandards in einer Umgebung außerhalb des Browsers verwendet werden. Wussten Sie zum Beispiel, dass das Aussehen des Chat-Programms Adium (für Mac OS X, Anm. des Übersetzers) mit CSS angepasst werden kann? [...]

By: JavaScript beyond the browser - The Web Standards Project

JavaScript beyond the browser - The Web Standards Project — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 11:03:34 +0000

[...] It’s always interesting to see Web Standards used in a setting outside the browser. Did you know, for instance, that the chat client Adium can be skinned using CSS? [...]

By: vishal

vishal — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 04:49:56 +0000

Hello

I am having difficulty understanding the predeliction towards Adium.
In my opinion, its just brouhaha as

1] you still cannot do voice chat.
So although i have added my Google talk account, I am just able to use it as a regular IM. no voice chat at all.

2] ability to go stealth mode (like in yahoo) for particular contacts.

Barring these two, what can i say.

I would really really love to hear comments. Eric..please.

thank you

By: Ramon

Ramon — Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:26:57 +0000

hey was good i read a little bit of wat u wrote n i wanna let u kno dat dats all cool wat u tryin to show people but i wanna c how cold u chat so hit me up in my email i guess n give me ur aol screen name ok hope to talk to ya iight

By: Michele

Michele — Tue, 27 Dec 2005 12:46:23 +0000

Eric, you’re a true master of CSS! I’d love to say a ‘well done’ to you. Adium is nowadays excellent, why don’t you help the devs?

By: alexking.org: Blog > Around the web

alexking.org: Blog > Around the web — Mon, 26 Dec 2005 06:23:25 +0000

[...] The Fishbowl: Wikipedia vs Britannica. Apples vs Oranges. ongoing – Adium is the Future Eric’s Archived Thoughts: Adium: Chatting With Style [...]

By: Louis

Louis — Fri, 23 Dec 2005 10:12:31 +0000

Hmm, I was just thinking later that night, what if you could create an hCal of your chat logs, with integrated hCards? So you’ve your hIM nested in some hCal, with hCard-attributes for who’s talking? Or um, something? :) It’d be interesting to view my chat logs through a calendar interface …

By: Gregory

Gregory — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 16:02:04 +0000

with a microformat you are of course missing a trick if you don’t call it hIM ;)

By: James Sumners

James Sumners — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 14:55:50 +0000

Here is the obligatory reference guide for those having difficulty finding it: http://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/CreatingMessageStyles.

By: Michel

Michel — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 13:43:20 +0000

Unsanity has an application to manage logs of adium and ichat : http://www.unsanity.com/ctm

By: Louis

Louis — Thu, 22 Dec 2005 05:03:47 +0000

I’m finding XHTML, CSS and JS are everywhere these days. From XULRunner (Mozilla/XUL for your desktop app) to Adium’s CSS formatting, which I stumbled on a month or two ago myself, while looking at different ways to present logs. And imagine using RubyOnRails locally for your HTML/CSS/JS output? Now that’s powerful.

They got it wrong in 1999. It’s not about your desktop on the web. It’s about the web, on your desktop. Literally ;)

Anyway, I’m so excited about the micro-format idea for logs. And while chats and conversations could be used for it, I think making it more generic for “logging” is even more useful. Especially for gaming logs, which I’ve been puzzling over to display semantically, but haven’t yet found that “perfect” solution.

The problem is displaying so much information about what’s going on in-game, along with highlighting what people say. Either way, hChat would fit in here nicely, but expanding it a bit to handle more generic “actions”, like /me in IRC or killing someone in a game is important too. Or what were you thinking of doing for status changes?

Now I’m imagining an application that parses hLogs and compares what people are doing at the same time … using CSS vertical bar charts for a calendar-style display?

Hmmm, fun posibilities here.

By: 90% Crud

90% Crud — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 15:21:55 +0000

OS X? Adium.

On OS X? Using iChat? Time to switch to Adium. I tried Adium maybe a couple years ago and was underwhelmed, so when I started hearing people talk about it I figured that it wasn’t anything worth checking out. Eventually…

By: Jacob Smith

Jacob Smith — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 05:25:01 +0000

It took a bit to find the files to edit, so I thought it might be helpful for other less savvy users to post the method for getting to the files.

Go to the Applications folder then ctrl-click on Adium.app and choose “Show Package Contents”

Contents > Resources > Message Styles

Duplicate an existing message style then ctrl-click on that new style and choose “Show Package Contents”

Contents > Resources

Now you are in the directory with the files to edit.

Hope this speeds you on your way to perfectly styled chatting.

By: Aristotle Pagaltzis

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Wed, 21 Dec 2005 00:15:18 +0000

Eric:

I worry a bit about more capable future clients, ones that might allow whole paragraphs and lists and such to be exchanged.

Good point; having such stuff would be very cool, in fact. I suppose it only requires that clients drop in a

for now in order to use

across the board. Handling unstyled presentation gracefully is difficult though... hrm. I guess the hypothetical hConversation should just allow both elements? Smarter software could then pick one depending on circumstances.
In any case, there certainly wouldn"t be such a thing in hChat/hConversation.
Okay.
With an extra div wrapped around the contents of the list item, you could do what you"re after
Actually, just setting display:table-cell on the and and white-space:nowrap on the is enough. Per CSS, the browser will create an anonymous table within the
to hold the items, which gets me the desired effect. I"m coming at this from a “publishable markup” angle though, so I was trying to think of a way to avoid display:table-cell, since support for it is still spotty. I guess there isn"t. Oh well; I"ll live.