[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Michael Brown]

> | Otherwise we are stuck with using whatever Microsoft comes up with.  You
> | see?
>
> No, I don't see (continue below)
>
> | and if you are the type of person that prefers to use a
> | text only client, the chances are you think emoticons are a stupid idea
and
> | won't bother using them anyway.
>
> Exactly.  If I think they're stupid won't bother using them anyways, I
> am not stuck with whatever MS comes up with.  They didn't come up with
> ASCII, and that's what I've got :-).

I think you are missing several points here.

Just because you or I wouldn't use them, doesn't mean that they are not
worth implementing.  IMO anything that brings new users to Jabber is worth
doing (almost)

Michael.