iWannaChat is an advanced web based chatroom system, written by the iWannaChat Developers. A some chat room concepts are borrowed from traditional IRC (Internet Relay Chat), but there are some innovations too.

Features include:

• real-time chatting in your web browser using purely AJAX technologies -- No Java. No Flash. No ActiveX.
• compact mode to be embedded into your blog (eg. xanga)
• a range of cute emoticons
• extensible plugins
• private messages between users
• drawable whiteboard

History

The predecessor of iWannaChat is XangaChat?. Due to legal issues, the XangaChat? has been renamed to www.iwannachat.net. Since then, many features have been added.