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Microsoft Comic Chat (later Microsoft Chat, but not to be confused with Windows Chat, or WinChat) is a graphical IRC client created by Microsoft, first released with Internet Explorer3.0 in 1996. Comic Chat was developed by Microsoft Researcher David Kurlander, with Microsoft Research's Virtual Worlds Group and later a group he managed in Microsoft's Internet Division.^[2]

Overview[edit]

Comic Chat's main feature, which set it apart from other IRC clients, is that it enabled comic avatars to represent a user; this character could express a specified emotion, possibly making IRC chatting a more emotive and expressive experience. All of the comic characters and backgrounds were initially created by comic artist Jim Woodring. Later, tools became available that allowed user-created characters and backgrounds.^[3]

Comic Chat started out as a research project, and a paper describing the technology was published at SIGGRAPH '96.^[4] It was an experiment in automatic illustration construction and layout. The algorithms used in Comic Chat attempted to mimic some basic illustration techniques of comic artists (particularly Jim Woodring). Character placement, the choice of gestures and expressions, and word balloon construction and layout, were all chosen automatically. A widget called the 'emotion wheel' allowed users to override the program's choice of expression.

Although Comic Chat could be used in text-based chat rooms as well, it added a code at the beginning of every message to communicate the character's expression to other chat clients. This had a somewhat annoying effect on non-Comic Chat users (although it could be disabled).

Comic Chat was released with the full downloads of Internet Explorer3, 4, and 5, as well as in the Windows 98 and Windows 2000 distributions. It also became the official chat client of MSN. It was localized into 24 different languages. Although the program can still be downloaded and still works with most IRC servers, it is infrequently used today because MSN decided to get out of the chat business, and turned off its servers.^[2]

In December 1996, The Microsoft Network introduced a show-based format, in which high quality multimedia content was produced around several themes. MSN's MotorWeb was built around an automobile theme. MSN entered into a partnership with NPR’s CarTalk, and each day featured a new online Car Talk caller from the popular NPR radio duo of 'Click and Clack' (Tom and Ray Magliozzi).^[5]

Created and produced at MSN by Mike Klozar, the 'Chat Show,' as it was called, was an innovative combination of on-demand streaming audio, text (as cartoon bubbles) and comic strip characters all synchronized to display an animated cartoon comic strip created dynamically from the text input. An example of the show can be found at David Kurlander's project site, under [MSN CarTalk Comic Chat Show].^[5]

Each episode depicted a caller (as a black and white default character) and color caricatures of Tom & Ray interacting in a unique closed visual chat. The visuals were generated dynamically by the Comic Chat client (already residing on the PC), given a timed, textual transcript of the show. This allowed an online comic strip to draw in exact timing with the audio/dialogue that was streamed via Real Audio (14.4 modems were the norm at this time). The show ran for one year. MSN moved away from the 'show' format the following year, and CarTalk signed a contract with Cars.com. The online chat show ended at that time.

Microsoft Comic Chat installed a custom font, Comic Sans MS, that users could use in other applications and documents. In 1996 it was bundled with several other fonts in Microsoft's Core Fonts for the Web project and subsequent versions of Microsoft Windows, leading to its notoriety among the digerati.

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It was renamed as Microsoft Chat 2.0, and was bundled with Internet Explorer along with the then new Outlook Express, in the late 1990s.^[6] Version 2.5 bundled with Internet Explorer 5^[7] was the last update.

Microsoft Comic Chat has been removed with Internet Explorer 6.

See also[edit]

References[edit]

1. ^'Multi-Language Download Page for Microsoft Comic Chat 2.5'. Mermaid Elizabeth's Microsoft Comic Chat Resources. Retrieved 31 December 2013.
2. ^ ^abComic Chat - Resources
3. ^Download Page for Microsoft Comic Chat 2.5 Character Editor
4. ^Comic Chat (Reprinted from SIGGRAPH '96 Proceedings)
5. ^ ^abhttp://kurlander.net/DJ/Videos/CarTalkComicChatVideo.shtml
6. ^PC Pro: Focus: Broadband: Product Reviews: Internet Explorer 4Archived 2005-03-21 at the Wayback Machine
7. ^Paul Thurrott's SuperSite for Windows: Internet Explorer 5 ReviewedArchived 2000-08-16 at the Wayback Machine

External links[edit]

• 'Microsoft Chat'. Microsoft (Archive)
• [1] David Kurlander's MSN Chat Show

The following list is a summary of all major additions, changes, and fixes part of version6.0.0 of the Textual IRC Client.

Performance Improvements

Textual 6 delivers performance unmatched by any of its predecessors when running on OS X ElCapitan or later.
This is accomplished by laying out and rendering channel content on separate processes usingWebKit2.

View Multiple Channels

Command click up to six (6) channels to view them simultaneously.

Quick Select

The keyboard shortcut Command-D can be used to quickly navigate between channels.*

* This feature requires a Mac running OS X Yosemite or later.

Chat Filter Addon

The Chat Filter Addon received a significant overhaul.

Changes

• Filters can now be dragged and dropped to change the order they're matched in.
• Filters can now be exported and imported to allow them to be shared with others.
• Filters can now respond to more events: user joined channel, user left channel, user kicked from channel, user disconnected, channel topic changed, channel mode changed, and much, much more!
• An empty Filter Match value will match any possible value.

Networking

Textual 6 supports Happy Eyeballs, aprotocol for intelligently using IPv6 whenavailable.

A preference to prefer IPv4 has been added to the Network Socket section ofServer Properties.

Other Additions

• Added the command back which can be used to easily toggle off away status.
• Added the commands quiet and unquiet which can be used to modify the quiet list of the selected channel.
• Added “List of Quiets” window to view and/or remove entries in the quiet list of the selected channel.
• Added support for the monitor IRCv3 capability to the Address Book.
• Added inline image support for .webm files hosted by 4chan and 8chan.
• Added inline image support for lfil.es short URLs.
• Added preference “Only speak channel messages for the selected channel”, which is enabled by default.

Other Changes

• A two second delay now occurs between each join when automatically joining channels. This delay can be modified by navigating to Preferences ➜ Advanced ➜ Flood Control.
• Textual no longer waits for the Internet to be available before reconnecting when waking from sleep. There is no reliable way to determine when we can truly send data, so it's best to keep trying.
• It is no longer possible to select more than eight (8) channels at one time in the “Channel List” window.
• Incomplete file transfers are now resumed when the person sending the file supports this.
• Improved technique for collecting channel information to reduce number of “Max SendQ' disconnects.
• Improved support for connecting to irssi-proxy.
• Improved reliability and speed of playing back messages from previous session.
• The Client Certificate section of Server Properties now includes the SHA-256 fingerprint of the certificate.
• The commands amsg and ame no longer send messages to queries (private messages).
• The commands ctcp and ctcpreply now expect the first parameter to always be the destination.
• The commands gline, gzline, zline, shun, and tempshun no longer modify their input to include the default reason.
• The commands ignore and unignore are no longer silent. They now provide feedback when performed.
• Removed the preference to hide messages that mention an ignored user. This preference never worked correctly and had a noticeable impact on performance.
• When duplicating a connection, its passwords are now duplicated as well.
• Modified list of whitelisted URL schemes to include “gopher”
• Modified list of networks to include GeekShed, MindForge, IdleChat, and LizardIRC.
• Modified list of networks to remove the now defunct networks flux.cd, IRCNode, irc.btri.x10.bz, and ValleyNode.
• Removed inline image support for the now defunct services img.ly, twitgoo.com, tweetphoto.com, and yfrog.com.

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Fixes

• Fixed inability to add a channel named “#”
• Fixed almost every misspelling of “Parameter' as “Paramater”
• Fixed inability to navigate Server Properties using the tab key.
• Fixed channel passwords not being censored when they are supposed to be.
• Fixed file transfers failing when sending a file with a name that contains a space.
• Fixed a bug in the Caffeine addon that caused crashes when deleting connections.

Addon Backwards Compatibility

Styles

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Some custom styles built for Textual 5 will not work correctly with Textual 6without modification.

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To view modifications that need to be made, see this knowledge basearticle for more information.

Scripts

All scripts built for Textual 5 will work with Textual 6 without modification.

Plugins

All plugins built for Textual 5 will not work with Textual 6 withoutmodification.

Plugins that are bundled with Textual, such as Blowfish Encryption, Caffeine, and Wiki-styleLink Parser; have already been modified to support Textual 6.

Enter /getscripts into the main input textfield to install the latest version of those plugins.

Other plugins require modification. To view modifications that need to be made, see this knowledge basearticle.

Filters

All filters added to Textual 5 will work with Textual 6 without modification.