[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines
Michael Brown
michael at aurora.gen.nz
Thu Apr 18 05:19:23 CDT 2002
> > I didn't mean that everything should be with words to be descriptive,
> > like ":-)" itself is descriptive enough. Indeed, I would also want as
> > much ASCII-art as possible. But for those other "expressions" (e.g.
> > love) other things are needed and (l) (b) don't mean much to me.
> > Suppose I'm a hardcore Windows-user and I talk to you through Jabber:
> >
> > I just (e) u. I also have a (i) for your project. Maybe we could discuss
> > after a (~) or we could (b). I have some bad news, my (@) died, yeah, I
> > know: (u) .
> > Damn, I'm tired, well, look at the (o), I'll need some (c) , no I'll
> > just (s) ... BTW, do not forget, it's my (^) tomorrow, hope to have good
> > weather so (h) Anyway, I'll (t) or (m) you tomorrow.
>
> That's awful. If they had used [emailed] rather than (e) then it would
> still be readable on textbased clients, and it wouldn't take any longer to
> type on the graphical client, because they just select an icon from a
list.
Sorry to reply to my own reply, but thinking about it, I can see Mattia's
point (I think)
Why don't we come up with a Jabber "standard" list, that is text mode
friendly, and the transports can handle the translations to annoying systems
like MSN. (Transports are cool!)
Michael.
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