Laffer Project News

Laffer is a platform that can help you to communicate with ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and other messenger networks directly from your web browser(Laffer Web Client), from console client, or with form your phone with the help of j2me client.
Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages, contact list visualization and manipuliation, presence status visualization, and getting information about the user. ... read more

Laffer is web-based multi instant messenger client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and other messenger networks. Laffer is written in HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP. Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages, contact list visualization and manipuliation, presence status visualization, and getting information about the user.

Changes are: The initial protocol for the communication between the IM proxy server and the client was changed. There is new "docs" directory where the documentation will be stored.... read more

Laffer is new Web-based instant messenger client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and other messenger networks. Laffer is written in HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP. Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages, contact list visualization, presence status visualization, and getting information about the user.

In this version the OSCAR protocol implementaion is improved and ICQ contact list manipulation - add/edit/delete group or user is possible. We also switched from TOC to OSCAR protocol for AIM networks. There is new Russian translatio to the web interface thanks to Boris Korobkov... read more

Laffer is new Web-based instant messenger client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and other messenger networks. Laffer is written in HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP. Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages, contact list visualization, presence status visualization, and getting information about the user.

This version is codenamed "Right Click" and all most of the new functions use the right click of your mouse when over the contact list.... read more

Laffer is new Web-based instant messenger client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and other messenger networks. Laffer is written in HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP. Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages, contact list visualization, presence status visualization, and getting information about the user.

There is new proof-of-concept protocol, called Google (Fake) Instant Messenger, that can turn Gmail into instant messenger(IM) network, like ICQ, and can help you to exchange messages and presence statuses with other gmail friends using Laffer and logged to Gmail. ... read more

Laffer is new Web-based instant messenger client. It supports ICQ, MSN, AOL, Yahoo, and other messenger networks. Laffer is written in HTML and JavaScript, and it uses DOM 1.2 and PHP. Laffer is capable of exchanging text messages, contact list visualization, presence status visualization, and getting information about the user.

In this version the code of YIM and MSN protocol classes is improved and there is support for using different interface languages, message and client charset convertions.... read more

The web instant messenger client Laffer has new version - 0.3.2. Major changes in this release are:
- First version of bash installation script
- Yahoo protocol is working again
- Added mechanism for storing user id and password as browser cookies
- Working Bulgarian and English translations of Laffer Web Client
-- Initial version of Novell GroupWise IM protocol.
For more information about Laffer take a look at: http://laffer.sf.net.
Version 0.3.2 can be downloaded from:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/laffer/laffer-0.3.2.tgz?download

First public version of Laffer (http://laffer.sf.net) is fact. Laffer is pure ICQ/MSN/AOL etc. web client written in HTML, JavaScript and PHP.
All of you,interested in laffer, can download version 0.3.1[ https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=101249&package_id=118283&release_id=238492 ] and give it a try.
Laffer is GPL software and is looking for brave new members to help development and tests.
// Laffer requires modern browsers like Mozilla 1.4 and newer or IE 5 and newer.