You might already know mibbit which I ever mentioned it before. Today, I just found one opensource webirc client named qwebirc.
Here are its feature I extracted from its official website:
- AJAX IRC client.
- Multiple channels and queries.
- Nick list menus.
- Scalability: used by QuakeNet: the world’s largest IRC network.
- Cross platform (pure Python), so works under Linux, FreeBSD, Windows, and probably more platforms.
- Embedded webserver, so very little configuration.
- SSL support.
- Supports WEBIRC style hostname setting with asynchronous DNS.
- Optional dedicated message and/or notice windows.
- Irssi style /msg, query, channel and nickname autocompletion (sorted correctly by last used/spoke order).
- Completely open source (GPLv2).
- Ability to offer a direct connection, no third party.
- Can pass your hostname through directly to the IRC server.
- Keyboard shortcuts for window selection (alt+a, alt+1..0).
- Irssi style global input history.
- Mouse wheel on tabs.
- UTF-8 support.
- Clickable channels, links and authnames.
- mIRC colour/underline/bold support.
- Minimalistic design with a decent colour scheme.
- Direct integration into QuakeNet’s secure authing system.
- No profit motive, so no logging, link hijacking, advertising or data mining whatsoever.
- Irssi style multiple highlight levels.
- Wizard to allow users to easily embed the client into their own websites.
It releases under GPLv2.
Homepage: http://qwebirc.org/
. The installation of each forum is not so far different – uploading files, create database (mostly MySQL), then run installation wizard.