[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Lise Meyer /LEA/TEC/ENG/INT]

An idea could be to insert emoticons in an extension of the <message>, such
as the one used for inserted a url link, for instance when receiving a
headline message from msn or yahoo, something like <x
xmlns='whatever'><icon>.....
This way it would be possible for transports to translate the icons into msn
or yahoo icons, and clients that do not support the tag would simply not
show it.

That way it would also be possible to activate/deactivate the icon by taking
the tag into consideration or not

Lise
----- Original Message -----
From: "David Waite" <mass at akuma.org>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 8:25 AM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines


> Michael Brown wrote:
>
> >Sorry, I ment that the transports will have to do the translations when
> >messages are sent to other IM systems.  For example, if a graphical
Jabber
> >user clicks the icon with the mouse for "email", they will see the icon
on
> >their client, and when they send it to a text only Jabber client, the
other
> >client will see :email:, however if they send it to someone on MSN, the
MSN
> >transport must know to translate :email: to (e) so that native MSN
clients
> >can interpret it. (and back again when messages come from MSN to Jabber.
So
> >
> What happens when someone wants to really send :email: or (e), rather
> than a graphical icon ?
>
> -David Waite
>
>
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