I made this a couple of weeks ago because I had two problems with chatting on IRC:

• IRC is blocked at school (and OmnomIRC too, for that matter)
• There were no good free IRC clients for iOS

So my goal was to make something that wouldn't be blocked with a nice mobile UI.

The project expanded a lot since then, and now I have pretty much a complete IRC chat box. It works the same way as OmnomIRC and saxjax—it's really a bot that relays messages to and from the IRC server—but it's got some nice features pulled from real IRC clients that I can't live without, like tab autocompleting nicks and using up/down arrows to access previously sent lines.

For now, you can try it out at http://clrhome.org/b/chat/?test. (You don't need an account.) Below are screenshots of what it looks like on a desktop browser and on a mobile device.

Use /join to switch channels. You can only switch to channels that the DT bot/client is in, which currently include #omnimaga, #omnimaga-spam, #omnimaga-fr, and #thebot.

I'm not entirely sure, but if it turns out to be a lot less resource-intensive than OmnomIRC I'm hoping to get it integrated with the Omnimaga user accounts and linked up where OmnomIRC used to be. (Right now this is running on Juju's server, which might need to change.)

The interface loads super quick, but there seems to be a slight delay in sending text.

Sent lines take a maximum of 1.4 seconds to be sent to the server and lines from the server take a maximum of 0.4 seconds to be received by the client. (The 1.4 is because there's a one-second pause between fetches, plus the 0.4 seconds it takes to read the line back.)

Some clients append the line you send as soon as you say it regardless of when it actually reaches the server, but the problem with that is that it sometimes causes lines to be out of order (making it seem like your line came before others when it actually didn't).

It also seems I have to drag the bar down to see the new text after I've sent it to the room (it' doesn't scroll automatically). Actually, it does not scroll down when anyone speaks in the chat from what I can tell. Tested in Firefox 10.0.1

I didn't test in Firefox—scrolling does work in Chrome. I'll take a look at it.

It works perfectly for me in Midori. Also yeah this should be the new OmnomIRC. And I don't really mind if it's hosted on my server, it doesn't seem to eat lots of RAM.

EDIT: There's still some problems with the scrolling when it gets inactive.

Another thing to report: After the last message I sent (@ 22:03 in the chat box) it seems the bot quit updating. I didn't see any more messages for an hour roughly (22:57) when I reloaded the page manually and spoke again.
*Edit* Still in Firefox btw.

This is very nice! Did you do any pm handling stuff? And, i think i would put the userlist to the right (as xchat has it there ^^)

Seems nice. What about security measures, though? (in case someone abuses it)