[JDEV] Capabilities Discussion

[Ryszard Sommefeldt]

I'm still for making it part of jabber:iq:version.  A lightweight
client on a limited bandwidth link should still be able to
support a 100 user roster.  It has no need for the extra info
sent out with a presence push.

Clients should do capability negotiation.  Old clients wont
know to do this so they wont break.  New clients that
know to do capability negotiation will negotiate features
and work appropriately.

Having all that extra data in with the presence push just
doesn't make good sense to me.  I'm coming at this from
a lightweight client user's point of view.

I will be developing a PocketPC client next year and I
don't like the thought of a Jabber server pushing way too
much data my way, even though the client will support
XHTML et al.

Ryszard