[JDEV] Capabilities Discussion

[Sean Wieland]

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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