TinyBuddy IM: Release (v2)

Today I did a small update to TinyBuddy IM (about). I'm calling it the v2 release. As I do a release, no matter how small, I'll just up the v number.

The biggest change is in response to Trevor's request for grouping. I had support for showing buddies by group before I had the iChat-like alphabetical buddy listing, but I had to work out an application switch and update the styles a little bit.

The upshot: if you put a bl=group on the TinyBuddy IM URL, the buddy list will show buddies in groups:

http://tybyim.com/?bl=group

Groups can be collapsed and expanded. Leave off the bl=group to get the normal alphabetical buddy listing.

Other things that were updated:

* If you are typing a message and a new IM comes in from another buddy, there will be a notification in the current IM pane.

* A Send button in the IM pane. It seemed like a couple people didn't realize that the bottom text box was for typing and sending IMs. I hope having the explicit button helps. It also makes makes the UI mostly usable (if a bit small) on a Nintendo Wii. :)

* Some small style changes.

I also think that .mac accounts should work since they use AIM behind the scenes, but I'm not totally sure on that. If someone with a .mac account can give it a try and post the results, I would appreciate it.

And as I mentioned in a previous post, you can register your email address to use as an AIM ID (to log into TinyBuddy IM, and to use as a valid OpenID).

On the release: I tried getting the scrollTo thing to work as Kai suggested, but I think the Dojo AccordionContainer is doing some weird sizingthings that makes the window.scrollTo calls not "hide" the address bar in iPhone Safari once I show the buddy list. So more investigation needed there.

Tags: tinybuddy, im, iphone, aim