Fire Development
Feb 6th, 2006 by Graham Booker
I started using Fire back in the days of Mac OS X Server (before the public beta). It was the only IM client for the mac in those days. In 2002 or so, I created a small patch that fixed the get info within AIM and added the box to display profile information. After that, my development exploded to include the following items
- Switch AIM back to the OSCAR protocol and added buddy icons as well as file transfer(first OS X client to do this)
- Enabled Tabbed chat windows, and wrote two of the three different tab styles
- Used xhtml as the logging format to save all the data and enable future expansion
- Enabled multiple logins per service (much needed feature) for version 2.0
- Wrote a new and more efficient buddy list for version 2.0
- Massively optimized sections of code and reorganized the class hierarchy to a better design for version 2.0
The main webpage is located at http://fire.sourceforge.net