Hello, Sergey!
09.10.2012, 00:59, "Sergey Dobrov" <[email protected]>:
> On 10/09/2012 12:04 AM, Kozlov Konstantin wrote:
>> 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"/>
Ok, IC.
>>>> 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.
To tell the truth, XHTML-IM doesn't mean high traffic consumption at all. Bot
XML and HTML code are compressed even better than plain text because of a lot
of repeating elements. Unlike Base64-encoded data, which is almost
incompressible.
With my best regards,
Konstantin
