[JDEV] Q: Buddy icons?

[David Waite]

Jens Alfke wrote:


> One possibility to enable this is to send the icon [or just an indication
> that it's changed] as part of a state change, i.e. some new sub-element of
> <presence>. This allows the icon to change dynamically for any reason,
> without requiring watchers to poll. The sub-element could be
> <photo>...</photo> with ~2k of raw CDATA in between, or a simple
> <photo-changed/> with no content.
>

I really would prefer this sort of thing not to be pushed on me. A 100-person
roster with a 2k image being pushed out will generate 200k of traffic through
the server, which would really tax it as well.

Why not have an avatar profile, where you list different images for a client to
optionally show for different states. This could be just a collection of http
links for grabbing png images.

-David Waite