Modifying a processor to interpret URNs instead of URLs is no biggie. Besides, we can always just use relative URLs, and scratch the processor patching process.
- Dave Julian Fitzell wrote: > > Richard Dobson wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 12:26 PM > > Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines > > > > > > > >>>>Okay, it's a 2 vs. 1 here ... how about if one of you echoes _my_ > >>>>messages instead of the other's? That should even things a bit ;-) > >>>> > >>>> - Dave > >>> > >>>If we're going to start counting here, you can put me down for another > >>>one against > >> > >>I'm a "for" :) > >> > >> > >>>1) I don't like html-ish tags being stuck directly in the message tag... > >>>they're hard to filter out if you don't want them. If you want to do > >>>this, do it in the xhtml tag where it is only dealt with by clients that > >>>understand images. > >> > >>This sounds fine to me, doing it inside a xhtml tag. :) > > > > > > Yep html should only ever be in the html section of the message, not > > embedded into the plain text section, although there still needs to be a > > solution for the plain text section and how to display the emoticons in that > > (at the very least a standard textual representation for each emoticon). > > > > > >>>2) I don't like using filenames to identify an emotion. Some picture > >>>that somebody thinks I want to see (maybe some nice porn) does not > >>>necessarily convey an emotion to me. I want to learn what an image > >>>means in my client. And I want my emoticons to have the same style and > >>>a style that matches my UI. And I don't think sending relative paths in > >>>the SRC attribute is a good solution to this... one client may not be > >>>using .png files so why should it have to look for smiley.png as a key > >>>to display it's happyface image? > >> > >>So why not use URN's? <img src="urn:jabber-emoticon:smilie.png" > >>alt=":-)" /> Nothing is fetched from anywhere, clients have an internal > >>table of emoticons. > > > > > > Thats much better than a url to an external source, but there is still the > > problem of the file format here, it should not be assumed that everyone uses > > a particular image format for their emoticons. > > What about this: > > > > <img src="urn:jabber-emoticon:smilie"> alt=":-)" /> > > > > Just doing this solves many of the problems, although I still like my > > solution ;-). > > Sure, but then in either case why are we using an <img> tag? Sure we > can use a tag called <img> if we want, but why not an x tag with an > appropriate namespace? This doesn't save any bandwidth and now the > client can't use and HTML widget to display XHTML messages because it > won't understand the URN... > > Julian > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Beta4 Productions (http://www.beta4.com) > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
