It might be easier to style the chat properly if a webview is used
So I assume we would create html output and themes/styles would be provided as css files? Sounds good.
Yes
Something like this would be nice: http://colloquy.info/images/screenshots/Sidebar.png
Maybe the postler theme (i think it's used in empathy) could be used for the chat conversation.
With CSS support themability would become a no brainer. It would also allow for inline image displaying and other crap that modern IRC clients have. (Not that I neccessarily agree with those)
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So I assume we would create html output and themes/styles would be provided as css files? Sounds good.