content/news/2009-07-26-web-chat-updates.md

   1 author: tomaw
   2 date: 2009-07-26 19:32:00+00:00
   3 slug: web-chat-updates
   4 title: Web chat updates
   5 category: development
   6 category: free software
   7 category: freenode
   8 category: open source
   9 category: webchat
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  11 Over the last few  weeks we have had quite a bit of feedback from our new web chat client.  As a result of this we've been able to feed back requests to the qwebirc developers who have been able to add many requested features:
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  16   * Optional Nick colour support
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  19   * Optional join, part and quit message hiding
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  22   * Optional last position indicator to track which content is new since you last focused on IRC
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  25   * CSS changes to highlight messages from yourself
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  28   * [https](https://webchat.freenode.net) support
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  31   * NickServ authentication
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  34 Some of the optional features are disabled by default, but can be enabled in the option pane, accessible from the menu (top left).