Sametime awareness without Java??
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For a while now (ooh a few years) I've been wanting one of our developers to write a servlet for me that can return an image of the status of a Sametime user. Why would I want to do this? Well a key reason is that whilst I really like the way STLinks can provide awareness on a web page, if you're running something like Firefox then most people don't load the signed applet on the page as it's a pain. So it would be nice to have the initial awareness without requiring Java, and then only showing the Java applet security warning when the person chooses to chat. The other thing that I get as a benefit of using a servlet for creating the image, is that I can use the image as an awareness indicator in my mail signature, now as it turns out, I can do that for Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo, Thunderbird etc. but not Notes mail, so a bit of a pain that really. Anyway, We haven't fully tested it yet, but I figure it won't be bad for the servlet to get some action, so here they are for a number of our bots. What's nice is that I've made it so that the status of these bots will still update, with no manual page refresh being needed.
I'd be interested to know what people think about this approach to awareness versus the embedded applet approach, you should notice this is much quicker to give status than the STLinks on the left, which you can only see if you're using IE anyway.
For a while now (ooh a few years) I've been wanting one of our developers to write a servlet for me that can return an image of the status of a Sametime user. Why would I want to do this? Well a key reason is that whilst I really like the way STLinks can provide awareness on a web page, if you're running something like Firefox then most people don't load the signed applet on the page as it's a pain. So it would be nice to have the initial awareness without requiring Java, and then only showing the Java applet security warning when the person chooses to chat. The other thing that I get as a benefit of using a servlet for creating the image, is that I can use the image as an awareness indicator in my mail signature, now as it turns out, I can do that for Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo, Thunderbird etc. but not Notes mail, so a bit of a pain that really. Anyway, We haven't fully tested it yet, but I figure it won't be bad for the servlet to get some action, so here they are for a number of our bots. What's nice is that I've made it so that the status of these bots will still update, with no manual page refresh being needed.
I'd be interested to know what people think about this approach to awareness versus the embedded applet approach, you should notice this is much quicker to give status than the STLinks on the left, which you can only see if you're using IE anyway.
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