----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:25 AM Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines
> Modifying a processor to interpret URNs instead of URLs is no biggie. > Besides, we can always just use relative URLs, and scratch the processor > patching process. You may not think its a "biggie" but what about client authors who do not want to support this, or clients that are no longer maintained where there is no alternative for people to switch to, it will break maybe even crash clients that do not support the urn method, if you use relative urls there is no guarantee the images will even exist on the machine where they are being defined as being, so it will break in any clients not programmed specifically to support this method of doing emoticons, both of the ways you suggest (and before you say it they wont be able to download the images from a central repository as clients not programmed to support this method of emoticons wont know anything about it, and still for something like emoticons that should be simple and universally compatible you cant just link to an external site for the images). It is still better to have this as an addition to the normal text and html so that it will be simply ignored in clients not specifically programmed to support it and the message can be displayed without much of a problem. Rich _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
