Jonathan Schleifer wrote:
> Am 13.10.2008 um 22:45 schrieb Peter Saint-Andre:
> 
>> 2. Have developers experienced any problems with the protocol as defined
>> in XEP-0085? If so, please describe the problems and, if possible,
>> suggested solutions.
> 
> Yes, the behaviour of sending it at the first message and only replying
> with it when we received a message with it often leads to a problem with
> offline messages. When one receives an offline message without it and
> the user answers, the client will answer without the. Both users are
> online at that time. Now due to the offline message, they BOTH think the
> other end doesn't support XEP-85 and chat state notifications are never
> used. I already triggered that several times in Gajim.

Aha, I've never seen that.

> Solution: Caps, it's already in the XEP. But sadly, no client determines
> support via caps. Plus the "try & error method" must be used for
> compatibility reasons.
> 
> Encouraging the use of caps in it would be nice, maybe even mark the try
> & error method as deprecated.

I'd be fine with that.

Peter

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