167004 - Include telnet:// URL support and MUD client functionality in Chatzilla

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Other Applications Graveyard :: ChatZilla, enhancement)

Description

[Bartosz Wucke]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020610

It would be very nice, if one could use Chatzilla as MUD/MUSH/MUCK/talker client
by emulating a simple terminal (vt100/ANSI) in Chatzilla - one tab per one
telnet session to selected destination.
Giving possiblity to type straight into the window in character mode  as well as
into the lower bar, which would be sending the text in line mode would be a
simple way to add standard telnet functionality too.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Samuel Sieb]

This is rather a strange direction for chatzilla to go in.  Have you looked at
xmlterm?

Comment 2

[Bartosz Wucke]

IRC is just one of online chat protocols, MUD/MUSH, etc are another, and from
the client point of view way simpler. (while IRC client does a lot of things in
the background, like opening new windows for new channels etc, MUD client is
just supposed to display user input in one window and server output in the
other, and provide some basic text editing capablities.)
For the "MUD client" it's all there, just needs to be hooked - simply make
telnet:// to act just as irc:// but without interpreting any IRC commands.
Typical telnet client (with joint input/output window) would be some more work
though.

Comment 3

[Adam D. Moss]

Most MUD/MUSH/MUCKs expect a VT100-like term with optional ANSI colour support
-- I think that that would be the main addition of code between IRC support and
MU* support.

However, there's really so very little over-lap IMO -- the majority of the IRC
concepts of nicks, channels, ops and modes which an IRC client UI is geared
towards are just quite redundant for a MU*.  The main commonality boils down to
'an input line at the bottom, a wad of scrolling text at the top'.

Comment 4

[Adam D. Moss]

Actually come to think of it most MU*s don't mind a fairly 'dumb' terminal
emulation, there's little need for fairly complete VT100 emulation unless this
evolves into Mozilla's own general-purpose telnet client.

Comment 5

[Stephanie Daugherty [:sdaugherty]]

Given the age of the bug and the lack of interest, and the fact that this is almost an entirely new application being asked for, can someone close this as WONTFIX?

Comment 6

[Robert Ginda]

There is a telnet plugin for chatzilla in the wild, and one or two mud client efforts that are based on chatzilla code.  I think that's about as fixed as this is going to get.