[Standards] Smilies and XMPP

[Jonathan Schleifer]

Every network has it's static set of smilies. Sure, this isn't very customizable. But it solves the issue of different smilie codes. Don't get me wrong, I don't advocate static smilie sets for networks, but I think we could need some standarization on the smilie codes. What do you think? I thought about creating a XEP that defines a basic set of emoticons, which code to use for them and how to render them that SHOULD be implemented by a client showing smilies as graphics. And that also tells to use the transport-specific emoticons, if there are any.

Just to give you an idea, I thought having a table like this:

Icon | Name | Codes | Description
< An example smilie > | tongue | :P or :-P | A smilie showing its tongue



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Jonathan

If there's interest, I'll try to create a XEP defining a basic list of smilies that a client SHOULD implement - it's free to implement more than that. That would get some consistency into emoticons among XMPP clients. The XEP could also specify optional smilies that many clients implement, but aren't really necessary.

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