<snip> > Thats all good in theory but what about people who are behind firewalls and > proxy's? > And what about the unneccessary bandwidth it takes up, not just in the xml > but having to download those images, for something like emoticons isnt it > better just to have a way of defining that something is an emoticon and what > it represents so particular clients can display emoticons that better go > with a particular clients graphical style, and also whats to stop abuse of > this by either embedding enormous images that take ages to download or an > image with silly dimensions, also i will cause problems where people use a > lots of emoticons within a message, something like emoticons i dont think is > best delt with by embedding it in this way.
It also allows the sender to determine the receivers IP address (if they retrieve the image) which is not good.... <snip> > Rich Thomas Parslow (PatRat) E-Mail/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ICQ: 26359483 _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev