Old thread alert! On 9/12/11 5:37 PM, Andreas Monitzer wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to propose XEP-0084 User Avatar to be included for the > advanced client in the 2012 compliance suite. The vcard-temp-based > avatars are a huge legacy that I'd be very delighted to see gone. > User Avatar is already supported in all libpurple-based clients and I > believe in others as well (unfortunately, Psi uses an incompatible > old version of the protocol), and it's much easier to implement than > XEP-0153. I'm fine with vcard-temp being in there until XEP-0292 is > no longer experimental, but avatars should move forward.
+1 here. (However, we dropped the ball on XEP-0302.) > Right now, the Facebook and GTalk servers only support XEP-0153, > which is very unfortunate. > > By the way, I think it's a bit strange to require PEP in the advanced > client, but not a single PEP-based XEP. A client that supports PEP > but no protocol based on it is not distinguishable from a client that > does not support PEP at all. Agreed. XEP-0292 has some PEP features in there, but we probably can't require that until 2013 or 2014 (although I'd like to kill off vcard "temp" as soon as possible). Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre https://stpeter.im/
