Hello,
Le 2020-05-12 21:35, Jonas Schäfer a écrit :
This message constitutes notice of a Last Call for comments on
XEP-0393.
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1. Is this specification needed to fill gaps in the XMPP protocol
stack or to clarify an existing protocol?
no and yes. It was not necessary with XHTML-IM, but now that XEP-0071
has been deprecated, we need something for rich text formatting.
2. Does the specification solve the problem stated in the introduction
and requirements?
no, the requirements says:
"Messages formatted using this specification MUST NOT hinder readability
by users with color vision deficiency or impaired vision."
while the section" Accessibility Considerations" says itself:
"Formatted text may also be rendered poorly by screen readers. When
applying formatting it may be desirable to include directives to exclude
formatting characters from being read."
But there is no way to know if the text is formatted or not, there is no
marker, discovery, or anything to indicate that styling syntax is used.
3. Do you plan to implement this specification in your code? If not,
why not?
No, for the following reasons:
- I don't want to implement something without proper discovery and
flagging
- I think this is a huge step back with accessibility
- I don't like to mix wire format and meaningful text, but I could
accommodate with that if there was something to properly mark the body
as styled
4. Do you have any security concerns related to this specification?
yes, it is not clear enough that formatting characters must be kept, and
some clients may choose to hide them for aesthetic reasons.
This, added to the fact that we can't know if a text is styled or not
may lead to meaningful characters behind removed: as a result, several
clients can display different things.
This can be notably disastrous is a user copy/paste content such as
code.
§7 states "When applying formatting it may be desirable to include
directives to exclude formatting characters from being read.", but how
can we achieve this when we can't know if the body is styled or not?
5. Is the specification accurate and clearly written?
2 main concerns:
- The §7 quoted above doesn't explain how to apply directives to exclude
formatting characters
- is it not clear enough that formatting characters MUST be kept
Your feedback is appreciated!
Thanks for the work done, but I'm really concerned with this specific
extensions, and I think that a proper discovery/flagging mechanism would
be the bare minimum to make it usable (but even with that, I'm more in
favor of a proper separation of formatting and meaningful text).
Regards
Jérôme Poisson (Goffi)
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