Add boolean showChat to draw.js about ep_draw HOT 9 CLOSED

I think stuff like chat should go into some sort of plugin framework and/or we leverage a third party. We don't want to have to maintain a chat client as well as a drawing client

from ep_draw.

Etherpad's chat isn't a plugin that we could reuse is it?

from ep_draw.

It could/should be, I guess..

from ep_draw.

LOL. More work? XD

from ep_draw.

I will ponder this and take a look to see how difficult it will be to do.. I think the main issue is going to be accessing the socket and dealing with auth.

from ep_draw.

Okay! Chat isn't a major thing right now. Our main concern is crashing the server! Ugh. But I'm glad that it'll be in the back of your mind :)

from ep_draw.

An outcome of doing it by making chat a plugin would be that currently etherpad wouldn't put through it's minification process so it would adversely affect performance ;\ This is a bad thing..

We could potentially do chat as an npm module still but afaik all client side code would still be replicated, heh, kinda pointless right as nearly all of the code is client side code...

So yea, I suggest we wait on this :)

from ep_draw.

I'm fine with waiting for now!

from ep_draw.

I'm not going to work on this, Etherpad already has chat and that is what should be used :)

from ep_draw.