Reply inline: - Dave
"Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" wrote: > > > Okay, now before you read my response to a previous message (which > > answers all your concerns), can anybody come up with any more problems > > with the HTML IMG tag approach? That was certainly a rather major salvo > > of bashing you folks put up ;-P > > > - Dave > > It's just way more complicated then it needs to be. It creates > security problems which the rest of Jabber has been designed to > prevent. And it requires people to upload emoticons they want to use > or rely on sort of central store. What security problems are created? Also, if we're going to use a set of "standard" emoticons, we're also limiting people to a set of "standard" emoticons, but we're not even giving them the option of rolling out their own :-( > > All an emoticon system needs to do is replace certain pieces of text > (such as ":)") with brightly colored friendly little graphics, Any client can already do that by itself, with no support needed from the Jabber protocol suite. > why > add a requirement for each client to have to connect to a web site and > download them for each message? There is no such requirement, if you use a SRC attribute with a relative URL. In fact, clients can always just use the text in the ALT attribute, and forget about the images. > > IMHO, no extra protocol enhancements are needed, Hmm. . . > although it would > possibly be useful to define a standard set (I'm not really convinced > even this is needed but it wouldn't hurt). It _would_ hurt, because it'd mean involving the Jabber protocol in a standard it has no authority over, and indeed, _should have no_ authority over. > > Also, as has already been mentioned, most clients will probably want > to provide they're own emoticon graphics which fit in with the rest of > the UI. Nothing in the HTML IMG tag spec prevents clients from using their own graphics, especially if relative URLs are used in the SRC attributes of the IMG tags. > > Thomas Parslow (PatRat) > E-Mail/Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ICQ: 26359483 > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
