[JDEV] Rich Text in Messages

[Todd Bradley]

> For your day-to-day Jabber chats I don't think sending two 
> versions of the 
> message is a huge problem, even on 19.2kbps wireless connections. 
> I do accept that it is not the most efficient way to go about this, 
> however, 

That's for sure.  It's not very future-friendly.  What happens 
when FTML (FooTextMarkupLanguage) becomes the rage next year? 
Will clients then send ASCII, XHMTL, and FTML messages, all 
three, in hopes at least one can be understood by the client 
on the other end?  

Also, you're only considering the client's issues.  Consider 
the Jabber servers processing IBM's employee-to-employee and 
employee-to-customer traffic.  Let's say that'll be 10,000,000 
message per day in 2002, a farm of 20 quad processor servers. 
How feasible will it be to double (or triple) the size of those 
Jabber messages, just so your users can send bold text?



Todd.