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source: https://jimeh.me/blog/2007/intuitive-webkit-based-im-client-coming-to-windows/
date: 2007-12-06
archive: zydev.info
tags:
  - modern-bubbling
  - software
---

# Intuitive WebKit based IM client coming to Windows

Last night I was contacted by one of the developers from a new multi-protocol IM
client called Digsby.

Last night I was contacted by one of the developers from a new multi-protocol IM
client called [Digsby](http://www.digsby.com/) (dead link).

If you're an avid reader of my blog (for reasons that are beyond me... lol), you
probably already know why they contacted me. They asked to bundle my
[Modern Bubbling](http://www.adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras&xtra_id=3629)
message style I created for [Adium](https://adium.im/) along with a few other of
they're favorites.

Here's where things start to get interesting. Modern Bubbling wont need to be
ported to their client, as they're using the [WebKit](http://webkit.org/) HTML
rendering engine to power their message view.

Incase you're not an avid geek, WebKit is Apple's rendering engine developed for
Safari a few years back. WebKit was originally based on
[KDE](http://www.kde.org/)'s [KHTML](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML) engine.
It's the rendering engine that powers Safari, Mail, Dashboard, Adium's message
styles, and much more on Mac OS X.

So thanks to the open-source, cross-platform wonder that is WebKit, and some
hard work from the development team, Digsby will support all current Adium
message styles without any modifications.

Digsby's goal is to create an intuitive IM client for Windows. They're seemingly
huge fans of Adium, and how well its UI is designed. And not to offend anybody,
but personally I have to say no IM client for Windows which I've tried so far
comes close to being as good and as much of a pleasure to use as Adium is on Mac
OS X. And this seems to be the very problem the Digsby team seem determined to
fix. :)

I'm eagerly awaiting to get my hands on the first beta to see if I wont have to
be in pain anymore when using an IM client on Windows. :D

Head over to [www.digsby.com](http://www.digsby.com/) (dead link) and signup for
the beta mailing list.