intertwingly

Elias Torres: Sam could you add Jabber notifications to the email in the comment form when a new comment has been posted to entry? pleeeeeeeeeeaase.

OK, I’ve added a Register entry to the Nav Bar on the right.  It will allow you to specify your preferences, but I haven’t yet connected it to XMPP.

• This service, once available, will only be offered to people who can authenticate with OpenID.  I have no interest in maintaining a list of passwords or dealing with password recovery issues.
• While the information in the form will be initially seeded with your remembered comment name, email, and URI (if available), the registration information is completely separate and can be changed independently.
• To send a message, I need to know the XMPP server and the destination resource.  To keep this simple, I’m going to try to infer the server from the XMPP address specified, defaulting to Google Talk.

That’s pretty much it.  The registration panel is live in that it will capture and display your preferences, but again, at the present time no XMPP messages are generated until I am comfortable that the registration is debugged.

My goal is to keep this simple.  If you are looking at a page, three mouse clicks and you can be subscribed (it may take more based on your OpenID provider).  One subscription list per OpenID.  You can subscribe to all comments, just the entries that you have commented on, or add subscriptions to any of the ten most recently posted or commented on entries.

As an aside, this deceptively simple form has lots of combinations to deal with: new user vs returning user, GET vs POST, cookies available or not, unauthenticated user vs failed authentication vs fully authenticated user vs previously authenticated user whose authentication has timed out.  If you find some combination that doesn’t work as you would expect, let me know.