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Posted 2005/11/08

Second round of NBChat portlet testing

I followed the instructions and signed into the portlet. Using the edit button I filled in the IP and port and connected fine to the chat portlet. The text for my user in the chat window was yellow on white - which i nigh on impossible to read :)

I managed to subscribe to all 4 webcams and with them all running the box was using 40% cpu and 57MB of RAM was being used by Firefox and it’s children.

When RJB rejoined the chat his text was even harder to read than mine (see screen shot).

As a bit of further testing I closed all the cam windows and subscribed to them all again - that worked fine.

When trying to explain to Gemma what the program did I realised you don’t know which cam is which - I think it might be a good idea to have the name of the person in the title bar or some other indicator. Imagine if you hadn’t met people IRL it would be a bugger to keep.