[JDEV] Capabilities Discussion
Sean Wieland
windwalker at peacefire.org
Thu Dec 21 03:19:07 CST 2000
Ryszard Sommefeldt wrote:
>
> 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
Why not write a transport that filters out all of the extranious
information? So someone can speak "jabber" but have it translated to
"jabber lite".
-Sean
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