So if you haven’t seen recently, Yahoo! now has a version of Messenger that runs in a web browser. I’m actually running it in another tab as I write this. I can’t figure out if this is genius or insanity yet, but I’m leaning towards the latter.
The plus side is simple: server-side history (which I hope works on the client version too), and the ability to IM from anywhere without having to install software. It’s perfect for interweb kiosks, etc.
But damn, it’s a web page and that makes it… oh I don’t know… large. And now, I have a messaging pending, so the tab is displaying the message like a marquee, scrolling across. Annoying. It should just probably change into a different title that indicates there’s a message unread.
The jury’s still out on this one. It definitely will be useful at times, no doubt, but I don’t know if it’s what I want to run 100% of the time.
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