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100% HTML Based Although a couple of minor features use JavaScript, the core of WebGabber and everything needed to us it is 100% HTML Based. As such, almost any browser in use today can use Webgabber chat rooms. Why pay money for a chat server which limits the base of users who can use your chat by requiring them to download a Java component or other client software?

Extensive Configurability WebGabber was originally developed to use on a single ISP. However, while developing we paid attention to make everything we could configurable in anticipation of others running our software. At the present, almost everything about the software is configurable! Take a look at the Admin Pages to see just how much you can configure.

User Email Validation If you choose to implement it, WebGabber can require that each user creating an account provides a valid email address. To validate the address provided, WebGabber will send an automated email message to the user containing an activation code. This code must be received and entered for the user is allowed to log in to chat.

Extensive Logging If you choose to enable it, WebGabber will store every character that is submitted to the chat and information about every action that is taken. All entries are store with date and time references. WebGabber also includes a Log Search utility to allow you to quickly locate comments in the chat. You can search a single room, or all rooms for the entire day. You can also search entire messages, just the sender's handle, just the receiver's handle, or just the message text.

Multiple Levels of Moderation If you have ever visited an un-moderated chat you know just how chaotic anarchy can be! WebGabber takes care of this problem by providing multiple levels of moderation. Each room, by default, has one or more room moderators. These people have the ability to kick/ban other users from the room, and change room options. The Chat Administrator (you) can select certain user accounts to become Special moderators. These moderators have the ability to do everything a room moderator can do in any room of the chat in addition to having a few extra commands available only to them. For instance, the ability to eject a user completely out of chat, or the ability to lock a users account so they cannot come back.

User Created Rooms If enabled, users can create their own rooms in your chat. They provide a name for the room and are able to change certain options to customize the room to their liking. These rooms are temporary in nature and are deleted as soon as the last user exits the room.

Room to Room and Offline Messaging Via the /PAGE command, WebGabber allows users to send a message to any other user who is not currently in the room. If the user being paged is in chat, the message is delivered to them immediately in the room they are in. If the user being paged is not in chat, then WebGabber will store the page and show it to the user the next time they log into chat.

Profanity Censoring If enabled, WebGabber will search every message being posted in the chat for any set of words that you define. The search code is quite extensive and advanced enabling it to catch many of the ways that users found to get around profanity censors. For instance, if the user replaces an i in a word with a !, the censoring routines will still catch the word. When a user triggers the profanity censor they are given a warning message. This message informs the user what word it was that triggered the censor, and tells them not to use that word again in your chat. If any user gets more than 7 profanity warnings, their account is locked automatically by the chat and they are ejected.

Filtered HTML Posting If enabled, WebGabber will check each post by the users for certain "harmful" HTML commands. These commands when used in chat will alter the functionality of chat and/or the appearance of other user's messages. It is possible for a creative user to send HTML code to the chat which will render the chat useless until it is manually reset. The filtering routines will prevent this from happening.

User-Controled Room Options Moderators have the ability to control many options of the room they are currently chatting in. These include the ability to lock the door (which allows the Moderators to decide which users are allowed to enter the room once they have knocked), putting out a Do Not Disturb sign (prevents users from being able to enter the room at all), pulling down the Window Blinds (prevents other users from seeing who is in the room), and turning on/off HTML. Also, when creating a room, the user can decide what handles will be allowed to enter that room, whether or not the profanity censor is to be used in the room, whether or not the room is to have a moderator, and whether or not to allow Whispering (person to person messages) in the room. Once a user has created a room, they are given the option of changing the background graphic, changing the room name, changing which message actions are available (i.e. Says to, Whispers to, Throws a Fish at, etc...), and controlling the list of handles allowed into and/or banned from the room. NOTE: Global On/Off toggles are provided for many of these options.

User Ignore If enabled, users have the ability to ignore other users. By altering the way user's handles are displayed in the Occupants list, WebGabber will notify the user which handles they are ignoring, and which handles are ignoring them.

Private Messages By selecting the Whisper to action, a user can send a private message to one other user in the current room. Once Whispers to has been selected, the chat remembers which user you were whispering to and resets those details in the submission form on each refresh. This way, a user can carry on a private conversation with any one other users by simply typing in their next comment and hitting send.

Auto-Refresh Users can decide to turn on Auto-Refresh. Once enabled, the chat screen will refresh at the rate the user has chosen. If the user has a JavaScript compatible browser, and JavaScript is enabled, the user will be shown a countdown timer to the next refresh. If the user's browser does not support JavaScript, nothing happens and the chat still functions normally.

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