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 categories:
   6 - development
   7 - free software
   8 - freenode
   9 - open source
  10 - webchat
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  12 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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  17   * Optional Nick colour support
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  20   * Optional join, part and quit message hiding
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  23   * Optional last position indicator to track which content is new since you last focused on IRC
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  26   * CSS changes to highlight messages from yourself
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  29   * [https](https://webchat.freenode.net) support
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  32   * NickServ authentication
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  35 Some of the optional features are disabled by default, but can be enabled in the option pane, accessible from the menu (top left).