On 16 October 2017 at 12:04, Georg Lukas <ge...@op-co.de> wrote: > * Dave Cridland <d...@cridland.net> [2017-10-15 11:06]: >> A Snippet is a small item of content. It is normally referenced within >> a chatroom or 1:1 chat. I'm only going to define use in MUC; > > I'm curious what the benefits are compared to just sending whatever > snippet you want inside of a message, or using http-upload for larger > objects. My feeling is that this sits somewhere in the middle, and > overlaps into both sides, so I wonder where it can be used in practice. > > The protocol like it's adding multiple roundtrips for the participants, > a separate access-control and life-span domain (we had that discussion > recently with avatars hosted on http-upload) and not to forget a > separate (sub)protocol with pubsub. >
Well, it's useful for when you want to list what's been snippetted. You *could* use such a thing like a pastebin, too. Semantically, this isn't messaging, so shoe-horning it into that metaphor would seem problematic. It also allows a single point of editing - I personally can't stand people updating snippets in other protocols but it seems to get used. Of course, there's no reason not to use http upload to host longer and/or more binary files, but sometimes it's simpler to handle security if everything is over XMPP, even at a cost in terms of bandwidth. So I think there's some complementary aspects. Dave. _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
