[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Richard Dobson]

Yep good idea, although I like the idea of sending along info about
emoticons that are actually used in a message so they can be turned on and
off incase (0) is defined as an emoticon (like in msn) but someone wants to
send a snippet of code and not have a bit converted to an emoticon.

> 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