Dave Cridland wrote: > On Thu Nov 15 15:05:13 2007, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> Example: >> you have set up a special text-only helpline and you need to know >> exactly what text people type so that you know if the person typed "he >> has a knife, I think he's going to kill me" instead of receiving a >> XEP-0085 <composing/> indicator and then <gone/>. >> >> > I'm struggling with the validity of this use-case. But see below for a > better solution. (And yes, I can think of very rare, convoluted, > use-cases where this makes sense). > > >> I agree that char-by-char text is not generally a good idea (or even >> desirable to the vast majority of users), but in certain situations it >> might be very useful indeed. > > Sure, although I suspect this is a solution searching for a problem.
In fact I have talked with people who want to build exactly that kind of system for university campuses. Whether they really need char-by-char text or something more lightweight is another question. > FWIW, I think an extension for sending partial messages makes more sense > than aiming to get char-by-char messages. Sending the partial messages > when the user has *not* been typing for a while makes more sense to me > than sending while the user is still actively using the keyboard. This > could be negotiated down to effectively char-by-char over particularly > short wide links, such as link-local, but be more network-friendly over > the Internet. Probably that would solve the problem for most folks, yes. Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
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