This is virtually the same thing that I have already suggested, I am preparing to write up a document on it, would you like to help ?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Sami Haahtinen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:22 AM Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons & Genicons > On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:03:17AM -0400, Adam Theo wrote: > > My only question right now is whether I should separate "emoticons" > > (those emotive-based graphics) from "genicons" (my own term for > > non-emotive, generic graphics of beer mugs, mail envelopes, house keys, > > moons, and such). I think I should, since I don't want to clutter the > > "emoticon space". But, if I do separate them, should I include them in > > the same JEP, or two different JEPs? > > imho it should be two different JEPs as there is only a limited amount > of emoticons (assuming we don't think of 'laughing while holding a finger > in my ear' emoticons) adn pretty much unlimited amount of genicons. > > After reading your document i propose to use jabber:x:genicons for > genicon usage: > > <message to="[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> > <body> > The Cat is in the bag, honestly! > <body> > <x xmlns="jabber:x:genicons"> > <genicon image="cat"/> > <genicon image="oldbag" string="bag"/> > <genicon src="http://www.ressukka.net/wink.png"; string="honestly"/> > </x> > </message> > > the image attribute would contain generic strings, ones that could be > stored locally, as not all who use jabber have internet access, then > there is the string attribute which defines which bit of the text should > be replaced and last but not least there is the src tag which allows > fetching the image from the internet directly, just like your XHTML > example. > > it would then be up to the client to look up matching icons, or request > them from the sender. > > The strings could be cached and used on other strings too, or the short > hand version would be to call then with :imagename: (ie. :beer:) > while using <x/> tags, we allow the text to be rendered cleanly with > clients that do not support genicons. > > this way the genicons could be just about anything, where emoticons > would be predefined. > > Sami > > -- > -< Sami Haahtinen >- > -[ Is it still a bug, if we have learned to live with it? ]- > -< 2209 3C53 D0FB 041C F7B1 F908 A9B6 F730 B83D 761C >- > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
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