On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 17:01, Florian Zeitz <florian.ze...@gmx.de> wrote:
> Am 25.03.2011 16:48, schrieb Kevin Smith:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Nicolas Vérité
>> <nicolas.ver...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 16:30, Kevin Smith <ke...@kismith.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Nicolas Vérité
>>>> For only one edit, I'm not sure this is necessary for interop (and
>>>> therefore to include in the spec) - but clients are free to not render
>>>> an edit as an edit if they feel they don't want to for some reason.
>>>
>>> Drrring. Wrong. This is a strong user demand, maybe the strongest. It
>>> is mandatory to clearly state an edit as an edit. Or show the original
>>> along with the corrected (strike formatting, or whatever, if you
>>> want).
>>
>> Right, clients are free to render this however they want to. Perhaps I
>> should add an "I wasn't willing to render this as an edit" error?
>>
>> That way if a client wanted to reject edits after the first one, it
>> could, and if it wanted to allow them, it could.
>>
>> Does that work for your user requirements (your users would never send
>> a subsequent message, of course, so would never encounter the error -
>> but would send it if a more liberal client were try and edit
>> something)?
>>
> Since I have a feeling there might be a slight misunderstanding here I'm
> gonna ask:
> By "Not render this as an edit" do you mean:
> a) Ignore the stanza an pretend there was no edit
> b) Do the edit, but provide no visible feedback of this
>
> I suspect you meant a), but Nicolas thought you meant b).

Ah, seems like native English speaker do understand themselves, as
much as non-native English speakers understand each other... ;-)


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