[JDEV] Rich Text in Messages

[Stephen D. Williams]

Thomas Charron wrote:
> 
> From: "Stephen D. Williams" <sdw at lig.net>
... 
>   You'd want to end up using the 'browsing' capabilities that have been
> tossed about by Jer, etc.  At that point, you could have a 'registry' of
> sorts, perhaps even the JUD, where you could browse VERY efficiently, so you
> could do one query..  'Show me all users who I may be able to play with'.

And how would that information be in a directory if it wasn't part of presence
(or another publication method that is in essence presence)?

>   I'm not disagreeing with you on if capabilities should be included with
> presence.  I happen to agree on that, simply trying to look at other methods
> for doing what your examples are about.. :-P
> 
> > If the concensus is that plain text is the least common denominator,
> that's
> > not too bad, although it's not 'competitive' with the commercial
> > heavyweights.  Even cell phones have the hardware to do bold or italics
> text.
> > Allowing it to be a capability allows both viewpoints.
> 
>     But by standardizing on XHTML, it makes it actually very simple to have
> XSL processors take the XHTML, and reformat it for, say, cell phones, etc.

That sounds like you are agreeing with my initial suggestion: xhtml should be
the least common denominator, not text, and really thin applications can be
shielded from the horrors of removing '<...>' by a gateway.

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