[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[dman]

On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 01:57:07AM +0200, Mattias Campe wrote:
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| I personally think that the representation of an emoticon should be 
| descriptive, because it could be that people use a non-emoticon client 
| (e.g. they find all those emoticons overhead). So instead of (l) (MSN 
| example) we could use :love: Because I think "I :love: you" is more 
| comprehensible than "I (l) you" (Hmm, maybe a bad example ;-) ).

People (me) who use non-graphical-smiley systems won't be bothered to
use colons to indicate an "emoticon".  If I want emphasis, I use the
existing ASCII-art convention of underscores or stars.  If I want an
"emoticon" I type, eg, :-).  If it just happens to be graphical on the
other side, I don't care.  IOW, it's fine like it is.

| But how will we do it?
| I think it want be easy to try to make all existing clients using our 
| guidelines.

In this case a "client" is as much a person as it is a program.

| Once again, maybe this sounds strange to you, but people really kick on 
| emoticons. It's like "programs don't have to be usefull, they have to be 
| cool". I'm almost sure I can convince my sister just like that if a 
| client would have cool emoticons.

If you want to make a jabber client that does funny graphics with
certain text strings, go ahead.  I like eb's and gabber's non-support
of graphical smileys.  Exodus (a windows client) has graphical smiley
support, but if you're using win98 you need to fix it (windows, that
is).
 
-D

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