OK, I need avatars for my client display, because images are the primary representation, i.e. no buddy-"list". Do you know of any developments in the Avatar direction? Otherwise I will leave it to my common sense as protocol designer :-)
Any ideas at Jabber Inc to which I could be compatible when avataring? -- Dr. Klaus H. Wolf bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw +49 (0721) 16108 75 > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > David Waite > Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 5:51 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [JDEV] JEP-8 User Avatars in Jabber > > > The proposal was embedding avatars in presence, which would not scale. > Hopefully avatars will be reproposed once we have standardized on a > discovery mechanism and publish/subscribe mechanism - its an interesting > feature for IM. > > -David Waite > > Klaus H. Wolf wrote: > > >Great, > > > >what does it mean? > >"The proposal was bad" or "we do not need avatars". > >Any other avatar developments? > > > >-- > >Dr. Klaus H. Wolf > >bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG > >http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw > >+49 (0721) 16108 75 > > > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of > >>Julian Missig > >>Sent: Thursday, July 25, 2002 5:30 PM > >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Subject: Re: [JDEV] JEP-8 User Avatars in Jabber > >> > >> > >>Despite what the "Status" field says, JEP-0008 was rejected. > >> > >>On Thu, 2002-07-25 at 11:16, Klaus H. Wolf wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Hi, > >>> > >>>is JEP-8 still considered active? > >>>Is it worth discussing and worth as a guideline? > >>> > >>>If yes, here the comment: > >>>- JEP-8 proposes 2 methods for retrieving the avatar data: > >>> > >>> > >>client-client and > >> > >> > >>>client-storage > >>>- it prefers client-client > >>>- I discovered the following behaviour: if the client changes > >>> > >>> > >>the avatar, > >> > >> > >>>then many other clients request the new data, and the server > >>> > >>> > >>throttles the > >> > >> > >>>connection because of e.g. 10 x 5 KB. > >>> > >>>Solution: > >>>- prefer client-storage over client-client. > >>>- if the client gets a request then it knows it must submit to > >>> > >>> > >>the storage > >> > >> > >>>to avoid further requests. > >>> > >>>Regards > >>>-- > >>>Dr. Klaus H. Wolf > >>>bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG > >>>http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw > >>>+49 (0721) 16108 75 > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>jdev mailing list > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >jdev mailing list > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > jdev mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev > _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
