Am 25.03.2011 16:48, schrieb Kevin Smith:
> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 3:41 PM, Nicolas Vérité
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 16:30, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
>>> On Fri, Mar 25, 2011 at 2:53 PM, Nicolas Vérité
>>> For only one edit, I'm not sure this is necessary for interop (and
>>> therefore to include in the spec) - but clients are free to not render
>>> an edit as an edit if they feel they don't want to for some reason.
>>
>> Drrring. Wrong. This is a strong user demand, maybe the strongest. It
>> is mandatory to clearly state an edit as an edit. Or show the original
>> along with the corrected (strike formatting, or whatever, if you
>> want).
> 
> Right, clients are free to render this however they want to. Perhaps I
> should add an "I wasn't willing to render this as an edit" error?
> 
> That way if a client wanted to reject edits after the first one, it
> could, and if it wanted to allow them, it could.
> 
> Does that work for your user requirements (your users would never send
> a subsequent message, of course, so would never encounter the error -
> but would send it if a more liberal client were try and edit
> something)?
> 
Since I have a feeling there might be a slight misunderstanding here I'm
gonna ask:
By "Not render this as an edit" do you mean:
a) Ignore the stanza an pretend there was no edit
b) Do the edit, but provide no visible feedback of this

I suspect you meant a), but Nicolas thought you meant b).

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