April 24, 2000
Got time for a quick chat?
One of my proudest achievements is not ever being sucked into the world of online chat. Well, that and not ever being pierced by anything except a renegade staple gun. Other than a brief stint with the snarky QuickConference back in the early nineties, I’ve pretty much ignored all of the IRC and instant messaging software out there.
But this is just too trick to ignore. Matthew Peterson has created an IP-based chat program contained within a 19KB QuickTime movie using LiveStage Pro.
How? According to Peterson:
“QuickTime doesn’t have text fields. But, QuickTime is powerful enough that it can build its own text fields. I used a text track as a sprite override to build the text field.”
Whoa. Forget about running another sluggish, unstable Java client and dump all those bloated AOL apps. Just fire up QuickTime and experience some of this ugly, but serviceable alpha code.
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