On Mon, Nov 6, 2017, at 14:08, Marvin Gülker wrote: > The XEP defines requirements like "MUST be displayed in italics" (§6.5) > or "MUST be displayed with a horizontal line through the middle (strike > through)" (§6.6) that immediately map to the user interface and are not > possible to implement in a terminal client on most terminal emulators. I > don't see why a terminal client should be excluded from supporting this > XEP -- it might be able to show elements by other means than the XEP > author imagined (e.g., using colour instead of italics; check how man(1) > copes with italics). The wording should be changed to reflect the > semantical meaning and not the visual outcome.
Good point! Assuming this is accepted (we'll see), I will rephrase and make the specific stylings (bold, italic, etc.) a recommendation instead of a MUST. Thanks for the feedback! > Another point of critique we already heard earlier on this mailinglist: > anything that's not based on XML requires the application developer to > either implement a new parser for the format himself or add a dependency > on an external parser. It looks like this XEP is Markdown for the sake > of using Markdown, whereas a more efficient solution would rely on the > tools already available. I do think that using a custom language is a bit of an annoyance since everyone has to implement it, but this is a fairly easy parser to write. I'm not sure what existing tools would be a good fit though (note that this isn't Markdown and existing Markdown implementations have already been discounted for reasons discussed in other threads), but I would welcome suggestions if there's something nice out there already that I don't know of which meets the same use cases and requirements. > Not using something XML-based in a XEP's format > also creates a precedence case from which we don't know where else it > will come back at us when other XEPs are made. I didn't understand this, sorry, could you please rephrase it or attempt to clarify? —Sam _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list Info: https://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards Unsubscribe: standards-unsubscr...@xmpp.org _______________________________________________
