[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[David Waite]

Richard Dobson wrote:

>Yes it does mean that the client has to support this x element, it means
>that it works fine with clients that dont support it, this method also
>allows the message sender complete control of where and when the emoticons
>are displayed, so the message will be displayed as the sender intended, and
>not as happens in msn messenger certain strings getting replaced when you
>didnt want them to, and not relying on the recipient client to determine if
>a particular string should be changed into an emoticon or not. Also as
>jabber users will not all be using a single particular client it allows
>better cross-client compatibility. Also the problem of it creating lots of
>overhead, well the syntax of the x element could be cut down, I did it long
>and readable so it was easier to understand for people here when reading my
>example.
>
It could also be negotiated before the conversation started; then only 
'shared' emoticons are available, and the information doesn't need to be 
sent along with each message within the conversation.

With a client which actually supports rich text/xhtml, should the 
emoticons get translated, or should they actually be sent along as image 
references?

-David Waite