Chapter 5. Adding Text-based Chat
This chapter shows you how to extend the video chat application we developed in Chapter 2, A More Technical Introduction to Web-based Real-Time Communication, to add support for text-based chat between the two users. After reading this chapter, you will have a clear understanding of:
Extending the existing HTML to support text-based chat
Adding additional JavaScript to enable chatting
Handling text-based chat in the signaling server
Other chat-based message processing ideas and options