giFT Interface Protocol Documentation, Last update: Jun 26,
2002,
gift.sourceforge.net/docs/?document=interface.html.
The giFT interface protocol was adopted so that the
back-end was never a required understanding for the user interface
developer. This unique feature (jabber who?) allows any giFT UI
developer to create a UI that can be used unaltered if the user
decides to load extra or even a completely different protocol
plugin. The giFT project hopes that, in time, this interface
protocol will become a pseudo standard and will allow truly robust
interfaces to be built without any requirement on the network
protocol it was intended for.
