Replicating Some Of Google Hangouts Chat Design

I've been using Google Hangouts a bunch. It's really pretty great. One on one or group text chat, audio, or video. Text is archived, maintains history, and is searchable. Video / audio is recordable. It works great on desktop and mobile devices and keeps them in sync. It's free. Hard to beat that.

Anyway, on a whim I decided to replicate some of the look of the chat window on desktop. Turns out there is a bunch of interesting stuff …

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