On 10/09/2012 12:04 AM, Kozlov Konstantin wrote:
> Hello!
>
>>>> 1. <img /> element without "src" attribute at all, which "alt" attribute
>>>> contains textual representation of the smilie, so translator either
>>>> translate it and display smilie image, or display alternative text if it
>>>> cannot translate (or do not want to translate it at all, eg. smilie
>>>> tranlation is diabled).
>>> Unfortunately, we have to be compatible with XHTML, I think :)
> Well, I don't see any incompatibility with XHTML here.
>
src attribute is required for img tag in XHTML:
<xs:element name="img">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:attributeGroup ref="attrs"/>
<xs:attribute name="src" use="required" type="URI"/>
...
>>> 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?
Actually, I don't think that it's required to say about lightweight when
talking about XHTML-IM ;) These clients that don't want to retrieve much
data from the network can just hide xhtml-im from their disco-features.
>
> With my best regards,
> Konstantin
>
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With best regards,
Sergey Dobrov,
XMPP Developer and JRuDevels.org founder.
