The feature of a clickable URL is generally a feature of the receiving client, not the sending client. I.e. If I include a URL in the form http://www.beresourceful.net in a message to another Jabber user, the ability to see that URL as a clicable link depends upon the client's ability to interpret that link as a URL, not the ability of the sender to format it as <a href="http://www.beresourceful.net";>a link to the beresourceful.net website</a>
The ability to use a URL reference also depends upon how the jabber client interacts with other tools on the client's machine. Or how feature full the client is itself. If the URL can be clicked and the client directly access the web site, either it has an html interpreter built in, or is using a html engine library on the platform it is being executed on. If it launches an external browser, it is using a feature of the client's platform, or the client has a configuration option to launch a user specified or found web browser. If you decide to build your bot so that it does send formated html, using <h1>header</ h1> tags, or <a href="jabber:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">links</a> you need to be aware that not every recipient's client may be able to interpret that formating or linking properly. Worse, it is possible that your bot may link to resources <img src="http://www.beresourceful.net/images/BeResourceful.jpg";> that some recipients would not even welcome. As a result, there are people who might end up considering your bot to be completely unwelcome. In an effort to clarify things a bit, I do not personally approve of html being embeded in messages that are sent to me. In fact if I find out that a client that I am using defaults to recieving and interpreting html tags, without offering me the ability to turn them off, I will find another client to use. Best of wishes to you in the new year. -Rusty "Michael Rothwell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The Jabber client available at Jabber.com, and WinJAB, both seem to support clickable URLs in chat messages. I'm writing a bot with Net::Jabber and would like to have the URLs in the messages it sends be clickable. I don't know how to do that -- does anyone else? > >Also, I'd like to be able to query a client fro my client (bot) to see what it >supports -- rich text, headlines, etc. Again, I'm stumped. Can anyone help? > >Thanks, > >Michael > >_______________________________________________ >jdev mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
![http://www.beresourceful.net/images/BeResourceful.jpg"](http://www.beresourceful.net/images/BeResourceful.jpg"){kind=link}