[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Richard Dobson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <dave at dave.tj>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 10:46 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

> > also there is no way
> > of stopping the sending person from sending them in the xml in the first
> > place,
> How about sending:
> <message to="annoying_emoticon_sender at whereever_he_happens_to_be"
type="normal">Please stop sending me these stupid emoticons.  They add
nothing to your messages, and simply make my Jabber client work overtime to
find and display appropriate images.  There are a bunch of relatively
standard emoticons which you can use as-is, but please don't bother me with
all that MSN crap.  (Crap is a technical term - it refers to this shit you
keep sending me.)</message>
> to whoever refuses to purify his XML streams to you?
> Seriously, how does your system "[stop] the sending person from sending
> them in the xml in the first place?"

Well because of the fact that all the added information is in its own x
element its a LOT easier to separate out of the message being sent, this
pub/sub stuff may be able to help turning it on and off, also the sending
client could browse the recipients address to see if it supports that x
element and only send it if it does.