On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 3:21 PM, Kim Alvefur <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2012-08-14T20:09:28 CEST, Kurt Zeilenga wrote: >> The more I think about it, the more I think I that this XEP is a bad idea. > > I think the concept itself is a bad idea, but since some people really > want to have this feature, having a XEP for it might be better than not > having one. I do agree with Peter about this largely being a technical > solution to a social problem.
Actually, not necessarily a technical solution to a social problem, for certain situations: It solves the "linear real-time text problem". TDD's (text telephones) transmit as a single stream of continuous real time text, with no message boundaries. Gatewaying instant messaging (with XEP-0301 real time text) to text telephones or other linear real-time text technologies, represents some compromises when needing to backspace across message boundaries (e.g. to the previous message). The existence of XEP-0308 solves this problem. And, the existence of multiple-message correction allows backspacing back across more than one message (especially if several <Enter> keypresses were accidentally hit on a TDD / text telephone) Therefore, XEP-0308 (as agreed by me and Gunnar) is one solution to the "linear real time text" problem; it makes it possible to backspace across message boundaries, when gatewaying between linear real-time text to instant messaging, and vice-versa. Sincerely, Mark Rejhon
