Alex Jones wrote:
This isn't about formatting, this is about getting rid of the guesswork.
Similar problems arise in parsing out icons in the presence of things
like regular expressions. Or maybe even regular chat:
Count the screws (there should be 8)
Incorrectly gets parsed out as
Count the screws (there should be SMILEYFACECOOL
I agree that we need to address this - since it is a relatively common
frustration for users.
Mridul Muralidharan wrote:
If we just add another tag to explicitly mark emoticons - and remove
the implicit rendering completely - then Alex's baseline requirements
should be done with IM-XHTML itself ?
Yes. This would be backward compatible too since, IIRC, XHTML parsers
should ignore tags they don't understand (and the tag would be qualified
by a namespace other than 'http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml' anyway).
- Ian
