Gmail Talk without the Google Talk
Just givin’ Firefox 3 beta 4 a whiz around the track, and Gmail was being really unresponsive for me. So I did what any ‘experienced computer mechanic’ would do, and gave the page a few heart felt clicks with the mouse. That didn’t yield any results I wanted it to, but something unfamiliar and rather peculiar appeared from ‘out of the cloud’…
I don’t have the Google Talk client installed, so I Googled around to find out if this was a new feature or just an anomoly, but within two searches the only relevant results that came up were this this article which showed a different implementation of the inbuilt call feature, and this other one talking about the possibility of what I saw, coming soon.
Nothing happened when i pressed the new buttons of the box that sat bottom left in the web browser, and refreshing the page got rid of it.
Rather random, but perhaps I got a sneak peek at how the call function is going to integrated into the ‘chat’ box (on the left), when you click on a contact. Is this news? Or have others seen this too?
Feel free to speculate what the music symbol and purple circle are all about…
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:56 pm
I think the music icon is symbolic of “I wanna rock and roll all night, and party everyday.”
But the purple circle is anyone’s guess!
Nice find! Want want want.
March 22nd, 2008 at 4:58 pm
It’s actually shitting me… When it comes up, i can’t do anything else – the rest of the page becomes in-functional. Oh well! Back to good ‘ole Safari surfin’…
June 10th, 2008 at 11:27 pm
ha, I just like “webshite” nice.