[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

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

Sorry, this had just been said...

Lise
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lise Meyer /LEA/TEC/ENG/INT" <lise.meyer at antepo.com>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2002 12:08 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines


> 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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