An idea could be to insert emoticons in an extension of the <message>, such as the one used for inserted a url link, for instance when receiving a headline message from msn or yahoo, something like <x xmlns='whatever'><icon>..... This way it would be possible for transports to translate the icons into msn or yahoo icons, and clients that do not support the tag would simply not show it.
That way it would also be possible to activate/deactivate the icon by taking the tag into consideration or not Lise ----- Original Message ----- From: "David Waite" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:25 AM Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines > Michael Brown wrote: > > >Sorry, I ment that the transports will have to do the translations when > >messages are sent to other IM systems. For example, if a graphical Jabber > >user clicks the icon with the mouse for "email", they will see the icon on > >their client, and when they send it to a text only Jabber client, the other > >client will see :email:, however if they send it to someone on MSN, the MSN > >transport must know to translate :email: to (e) so that native MSN clients > >can interpret it. (and back again when messages come from MSN to Jabber. So > > > What happens when someone wants to really send :email: or (e), rather > than a graphical icon ? > > -David Waite > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
