On Sunday 16 February 2003 05:29, Juan F. Codagnone wrote: > On Saturday 15 February 2003 12:44, Jon Keating wrote: > > Smilies though... perhaps someday as an option.. and also if someone > > submits some smilies. > > the other day, while i was having dinner, i ported sim-icq's code that > handle rtf messages to licq (well, i managed it to compile, receive and > convert some messages). Now i'm thinking: why we would want to handle rtf > messages? they are larger (like html emails) and they don't add too much > value (or maybe i'm too lazy for moving the mouse to change the font > style?). The capability of receiving rich text messages is set at logon > time, and is not seteable for individual users (eg. only send the > information that we can handle rtf messages to your girlfriend). If the > feature is implemented we can leave the option, and we would need to create > two translators: rtf2html (for qt) and rtf2ascii (for console. many plugins > can be active in a session).
I'm not sure about it, but i think we have no need to handle rtf messages if we only want to support simlies. Internally the messages are handled html-like anyway, so we could parse the message and insert smilies where required. am i wrong at this point? tomas
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