[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Dave]

LOL ... people tend to get way to concerned about privacy, IMHO :-(
Anyway, the same thing I said about getting around firewalls happens to
avoid exposing your IP addy, so I guess all our privacy advocates won't
be using their clients' internal repositories.  (Maybe privacy-conscious
clients should use the j.o-hosted emoticons by default?)

 - Dave


"Thomas Parslow (PatRat)" wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > 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....
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Rich
> 
> Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
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