On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 13:21 +0100, Ian Paterson wrote: > Alex Jones wrote: > > This isn't about formatting, this is about getting rid of the guesswork. > > Similar problems arise in parsing out icons in the presence of things > > like regular expressions. Or maybe even regular chat: > > > > Count the screws (there should be 8) > > > > Incorrectly gets parsed out as > > > > Count the screws (there should be SMILEYFACECOOL > > > > I agree that we need to address this - since it is a relatively common > frustration for users. > > Mridul Muralidharan wrote: > > If we just add another tag to explicitly mark emoticons - and remove > > the implicit rendering completely - then Alex's baseline requirements > > should be done with IM-XHTML itself ? > > Yes. This would be backward compatible too since, IIRC, XHTML parsers > should ignore tags they don't understand (and the tag would be qualified > by a namespace other than 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' anyway). > > - Ian >
I feel it shouldn't be a part of XHTML-IM though. I think there is a need to use icons that is independent of the need to use even the most minimal, valid support of XHTML-IM.
