We discovered a race condition in the JavaScript that caused otherwise ‘nice’ clients to start making requests to Hab.la roughly 3 times a second. We can handle a few run-away processes, but on Friday we encountered enough race-conditioned-javascript-requests that it adversely affected the RPC server that connects the Jabber Backend with the Javascript client. Over… Read more »
Monthly Archives:: March 2008
Autotranslate chats
I just wanted to reiterate how freakin amazing Hab.la with automatic translation is. Say someone visits your site and greets you in a foreign language. As soon as a particular language can be detected, seamless translation between your chosen language (english in our case) and that of your website visitor begins. Heck, you don’t even… Read more »
Chat translated into the language of your choice
Ever start chatting with a visitor on your site only to realize that you had no idea what they were saying? It happens to us at Hab.la all the time. Luckily for you, and us Google released a translation API today, which let’s site authors make AJAX calls to translate text in real-time. I added… Read more »