twitter.com/favicon.gif solve this issue. On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:50 PM, Bob Wyman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 4:37 PM, Ayende Rahien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > At the end user UI, this is a simple issue, > > associate an icon with each service, which > > doesn't take a lot of room. > > Or use Susan (twitter.com) > > To associate an icon with each service, you would first need to know all > possible services. But, in a federated system, it is unlikely that you could > know this since not everyone will know all services that are federating at > any one moment. Can you imagine that your idea of using icons would work for > email? (I don't think so.) You might build some sort of "icon fetching > service" but that would be a mess. (You'd have connectivity issues, problem > with unregistered icons, etc.) As a result, what you're probably forced to > do is something like what we have in email today: > > Susan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > But, since that is the display convention, why not use it as the input > convention as well? Users will appreciate the symmetry. > > bob wyman > >
