What I wrote so far:
Open browser, go to the messenger part, log in, as simple as that.
First impressions:
- no ICQ groups – that sucks – I used to use it a lot
- aliases
of people are retained (‘MG Zas’ for example) – which is a backup for
groups (‘group MG -> user Zas’ becomes ‘MG Zas’). - Cyrillic characters work fine (if it was working with my other client – Pidgin/Gaim)
Concerning
the standalone client – Google Talk – I have no idea if it works there
– Google have a pretty wierd update policy – they update silently and
only some clients – it sucks.
After all – it’s usable
After a week of using it this is what I noticed:
- Cyrillic doesn’t always work with everybody, sometimes UTF-8 comes as cp-1251, even though the browser is in UTF-8.
- However, when I write, everybody sees it correctly.
- No way to give authorization to people, no way to ask for one.
- No way to see user info. No way, really.
- Some of my peers receive everything in html. It’s hard to chat with them.
- I guess people without the official client.
After all – it’s still usable, but I’m not going to recommend it to any more.