[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Thomas Parslow (PatRat)]

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> Thats all good in theory but what about people who are behind firewalls and
> proxy's?
> And what about the unneccessary bandwidth it takes up, not just in the xml
> but having to download those images, for something like emoticons isnt it
> better just to have a way of defining that something is an emoticon and what
> it represents so particular clients can display emoticons that better go
> with a particular clients graphical style, and also whats to stop abuse of
> this by either embedding enormous images that take ages to download or an
> image with silly dimensions, also i will cause problems where people use a
> lots of emoticons within a message, something like emoticons i dont think is
> best delt with by embedding it in this way.

It also allows the sender to determine the receivers IP address (if
they retrieve the image) which is not good....

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> Rich

Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
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