On 21 March 2016 at 14:06, Kevin Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On 21 Mar 2016, at 11:48, Daniel Gultsch <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > An update to the 'arbitrary attributes' feature request. Even more > important than the before mentioned content-type, content-length and so > forth are probably description and a thumbnail. Information which can be > extracted for example by the means of open graph [1] meta tags from a lot > of websites. > > > > This would allow for a proper link preview like slack, skype and so > forth are doing. > > > > Kev: When questioning this. Is your concern that you don't want the > attributes to be completely arbitrary? Do you want them to be well-defined? > (Having a set list of like content-type, description, thumbnail, > content-length and so forth?) Or would you rather not have attributes like > this in this XEP at all? > > It’s a concern with the attributes being completely arbitrary (how does > one know which they need to support? discovery starts being a bit of a > nuisance). Non-abritrary data form elements could be reasonable - there’s > still a discoverability question, but it might be ok. Would you like to > propose something? I’ve not had the cycles since the summit to take much > more of a look at References. > > I don't think there's any fundamental difference between arbitrary namespaced child elements and a data form, except that a data form is more restrictive and lends itself well to human interaction. I don't think we have any human interaction here. So why a data form and not just allow namespaced child elements, which can be ignored by recipients that don't understand them? (Note that I often dislike data forms in machine-driven protocol work, but this case seems particularly unsuited). > /K > > > > > Cheers > > Daniel > > > > [1] http://ogp.me/ > > _______________________________________________ > > Standards mailing list > > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > > _______________________________________________ > > _______________________________________________ > Standards mailing list > Info: http://mail.jabber.org/mailman/listinfo/standards > Unsubscribe: [email protected] > _______________________________________________ >
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