Best way to embed an IRC client in a webpage

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I'm looking for a good, free, preferrably open source, IRC client to be embedded in a web page.

The obvious requirements of supporting most browsers, if requiering a plug-in it should be a plug-in that is allready widley deployed and it should not put too much strain on the webserver serving the page.

Mathilda answered 22/4, 2009 at 17:55 Comment(3)

Search google for "CGI IRC" if you want IRC clients that run on the webserver. Otherwise, there is at least on Java IRC client that's embeddable (runs on the user workstation). Mibbit is a very good IRC client that runs on the webserver. At any rate, this isn't a programming question - try looking here #322118 for other forums where you can get better help. – Jeroldjeroma 22/4, 2009 at 18:0

How is this not a programming question? I'm looking for a component that can be used in a programming project... – Mathilda 22/4, 2009 at 18:8

CGI IRC is written in perl and breaks with older proxies. Kiwi is way more advisable not using ancient perl but ECMAscript vulgo JS. – Lorrimor 12/7, 2019 at 10:58

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Not really a programming question, but Mibbit is quite capable, I've used it for a few different applications, it's always worked well.

Note that it will work best if your channel is on one of the networks listed here that support WEBIRC.

Stilla answered 22/4, 2009 at 17:59 Comment(0)

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An iframe can be embedded. http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=channel_name

Vargas answered 2/5, 2012 at 14:20 Comment(0)

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A commonly used open source platform is QwebIRC. In python with a javascript frontend, but has all sorts of packaging issues. KiwiIRC seems really interesting but I haven't tried it yet so I can't vouch for it. KiwiIRC is all javascript. Both can be embeded in an iframe or something similar.

Dialyser answered 18/12, 2012 at 16:51 Comment(0)

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I have seen these before, but I have never really liked them. I think the best overall one was Mibbit. I think the best way to go about it would be to ask the user to install a client and use the irc:// linking syntax to launch a native client.

Ensepulcher answered 22/4, 2009 at 18:1 Comment(0)

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I assume a java applet would pass the multiplatform / Browser requirement ?

Pjirc Its not one ive used personally, but i have seen a fair few sites using it.

Connelly answered 22/4, 2009 at 18:5 Comment(1)

It seems the last release of Pjirc was 2004. Why is that? – Mathilda 22/4, 2009 at 18:24

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