   [web] Best Chat solution for my game site
  I am hired to develop site for a game. what's the best chat solution for web sites?Is it Ajax based Chats like Chat80(http://www.chat80.com) and similar or Java based solutions? Does DHTML & Ajax works well with hundreds of users?Also i have questions for desktop developers: Is there fast enough way to integrate Internet explorer or Gecko based browsers in Game to render java and ajax chat's (it would be nice to have the same chat in game and on the web...)   
  I think ajax works nicely. There might be a little extra strain on the server because of the polling, but it offers a good user experience. The java applet load times for most chat rooms are way too long. Flash works well, but I find that it gets slow when the message window starts building up a scroll back or there are a lot of images on the screen like smilies and animated icons.   ;  Personally, I prefer an application that uses a *real* IRC chatroom instead of a chat that only runs on your webserver. That way, people can use their favourite chat client (mIRC, X-Chat, GAIM, whatecer) instead on your webcaht to visit the chatroom as well. As a webinterface, there are a few JAVA clients out there that can connect to IRC, and there's CGI:IRC (Perl based).   ;Quote:Original post by SanderPersonally, I prefer an application that uses a *real* IRC chatroom instead of a chat that only runs on your webserver. That way, people can use their favourite chat client (mIRC, X-Chat, GAIM, whatecer) instead on your webcaht to visit the chatroom as well. As a webinterface, there are a few JAVA clients out there that can connect to IRC, and there's CGI:IRC (Perl based).Seconded.