Hello!
>> 2. <img /> element with "src" attribute, containing URL with special scheme
>> (eg. "smilie:"), whith path, containing properly escaped textual
>> representation of the smilie.
>
> Don't know how complicated a process of inventing a new URI schema is.
> But I actually think that we can use real images with alternate text
> which contains text smile representation.
Well... this way just breaks the main advantage of text-based smilies: low
traffic. Why do we need smilies at all, if we can just send embedded images
anyway?
With my best regards,
Konstantin
