I played around some more with that Flash IM idea. Started in on the XML, and I’ve got the bare bones down. Right now, I’m thinking of making each line its own node, identifying primary or secondary speaker. In the event that the text wraps… I’m being lazy and identifying that as, I dunno… indent? Instead of a speaker, it’ll just have some blank space preceeding.
I now have a list of things that need to get done. I’ve got to figure out formatting to indicate primary and secondary speakers, and the whole scrollbar deal is another thing to worry about (later). I’m not going to factor in emoticons since I’ve disabled them in my chat windows. Hey… my blog, my project, my rules. 
I’m sure I’m overlooking some stuff. Like how links would work/appear. Or what happens if someone’s quoted an IM chat and pasted that into the conversation.
Ah well. Work in progress.
