Hi folk,
Today I was having a discussion with another developer about one of
the 'standards' that's been in place for a little while and it got me
waffling back and forth as to whether it's a "good" standard or not.
I'll get right to the point:
MSN username: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Jabber MSN translated JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
So where did this use of % come from? It seems to work out well, and
has been used in many places, but I don't see it in any XEPs or
anything like that (nothing formal). By the same token, if you look
at XEP-0106, it seems like what -should- have happened is:
Jabber MSN translated JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Now if a client 'renders' that, it looks like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]@msn.jabber.fake.org, which is a tad confusing
looking in it's own right. Also, if you are typing a jid on the
command line, assuming you had a command line client, that would be a
pain to type. The argument there as that the client should handle
the translation before sending it off to an XMPP server.. ie I would
actually type [EMAIL PROTECTED]@msn.jabber.fake.org. Such things
are a little confusing to look at, and possibly to parse, but which
is "better"? Obviously \40 appears to be the formal way as it's in
an actual XEP.
So should those of us in the transport developing world begin the
process of moving from % to \40?
Where did % come from? Why is it a pseudo standard to date?
I'm quite interested to hear other's thoughts on this. =)
Daniel
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