[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[dman]

On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 03:45:52PM +1000, Michael Brown wrote:
| > | 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)

Well, what if emoticons or the emoticon system become too cumbersome
for some people, and that turns them away from jabber?

-D

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