@yyfearth I don't really know how to use your compiler. Write something down or tell me where the document is.

channel id should be consist of alphabets, numbers, _ or -, and not case sensitive
regex: /^\/[\w\-]+\/?$/
url: /(channel id) e.g. /cmpe203, /0
and channel id will auto add '/' in front if it is not.

A general notifier wrap other notifiers to provide central API.

The sound effects come from HTC notification. I am not sure whether those sound effects are legal to use in this project.

try to discard express js in production startup script
use socket.io static handler to direct url and serve files
for it has caching and gzip features

Create a Cakafile including build and test tasks:

• build task: complete subtasks listed in https://github.com/yyfearth/madtalk/wiki/Build-Tasks
• test task: run all test cases in test/ dir
• build:full task (optional): build then test

Automatically build coffee scripts to javascript.
Move scripts to correct specific places.
Auto-generate HTML files for testing purpose.

iced coffee-script compiler does not support "use strict"

the "use strict" we put in the front of coffee file will be compiled after variable declaration by iced-coffee-script, so extra-coffee-script will do the same. but original version coffee-script seems fixed that.

(function() {
  var AudioNotifier;
  'use strict';

according to https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Strict_mode

To invoke strict mode for an entire script, put the exact statement "use strict"; (or 'use strict';) before any other statements.

so we can just remove that, and actually coffee-script will mandatory validate your code to ensure strict mode.
or we need to wait the compiler update to support add "use strict" to the right space unless we just use original version of coffeescript.

window.webkitNotifications.requestPermission(); only can be evoked by user action such as onclick

that cannot evoke automatically before show notification.

plan to rewrite DeskNotifier, and add a popup layer view.

merge audio, desk, title notifiers into one notifier for each of them is too small, and they can be tested together via one html.

sound need to be suppoted by all browser, so the two kinds of audio format mp3/4 and ogg should be both available.

embed the sounds into js via data uri

temporary only embed 1 sound little with mp3 and ogg format

a test prototype to support GFM without Code highlight

clean all the ui logic code in client.coffee
build a view controller class hierarchy included:

• View (Base)
• App
• Login
• Chat
• MsgLog
• Panel
• StatusBar
• EntryArea

Feature 1
Use cases 1 to 7

I just check desktop notification on Firefox and IE.

Firefox does not support desktop notification (maybe through plugin). IE does, but with completely different approach, rather than follow W3C draft.

I suggest that we only use desktop notification on Chrome now. I might add IE approach later after the first iteration.

I tried to make the code more elegant and decided to use getter and setter.

The problems are

1. CoffeeScript doesn't support getter and setter syntax
2. IE doesn't support __definedGetter__

After a little research, it seems that Microsoft consider definedGetter as legacy and use Object.defineProperty Function in JS 1.8.5.