[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

Mon Apr 22 03:59:57 CDT 2002

> I thought about it a bit (hmm, actually a lot ;) ) and I started to like
> the idea. So to reduce the overhead the message could be sth. like:
>
> <message type="chat" to="medds at me.com" from="friend at friend.com">
> <body>This is a emoticon containing message :) (L) ;) :D</body>
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:econ">
> <econ text="(L)" icon="luv"/>
> <econ text=":)" icon="smile"/>
> <econ text=";)" icon="wink"/>
> <econ text=":D" icon="grin"/>
> </x>
> </message>

Yep also I think it can be shortened by a few more characters like this

<message type="chat" to="medds at me.com" from="friend at friend.com">
<body>This is a emoticon containing message :) (L) ;) :D</body>
<x xmlns="jabber:x:econ">
<econ txt="(L)" ico="luv"/>
<econ txt=":)" ico="smile"/>
<econ txt=";)" ico="wink"/>
<econ txt=":D" ico="grin"/>
</x>
</message>

> I should even make it shorter by omitting the smileys from the x element
> because they explain themselves. In this example the overhead would be
> reduced to 3/4!! So the example would be:
>
> <message type="chat" to="medds at me.com" from="friend at friend.com">
> <body>This is a emoticon containing message :) (L) ;) :D</body>
> <x xmlns="jabber:x:econ">
> <econ text="(L)" icon="luv"/>
> </x>
> </message>

Yep very good point, so only the non-obvious emoticons would be in the x
element, but i also think that if there are emoticons in the message but no
non obvious ones the message should be sent with an empty x element to
signify that there are emoticons in the message to be replaced, e.g.

<message type="chat" to="medds at me.com" from="friend at friend.com">
<body>This is a emoticon containing message :) ;) :D</body>
<x xmlns="jabber:x:econ"/>
</message>

Richard