[JDEV] Rich Text in Messages

tcharron tcharron at ductape.net
Mon Dec 11 12:31:30 CST 2000


From: "David Waite" <dwaite at jabber.com>
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Rich Text in Messages
> In what circumstances would feature negotiation not work due to presence?
Am I
> not correct in the assumption that even if another resource bumps an
existing
> one off due to name conflict, that the presence cycles to 'offline'? You
also
> can't change your resource without reauthenticating. In what circumstance
would
> you not know that a client has changed to a reduced featureset without
having
> them drop offline?

  I think I worded that incorrectly.  Yes, that's correct, in presence could
do it.  I was translating that to mean that you would rely on the sender to
change gears.  I'm talking about the server itself changing gears..  See the
quote below...

> >     And if one wanted to go one step further, the whole idea of XML
style
> > sheets come into play.  If it was stated that all formated types needed
an
> > XSL stylesheet, and we incorperated one into the server, couldn't the
server
> > then reformat the information on the fly as needed?  Thus, I could be in
> > WinJab, viewing something via XHTML, but then later login to my Web
client,
> > and have the server automatically display all my messages in HTML
format,
> > running the messages thru the XSL stylesheet processor?






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