[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Richard Dobson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <dave at dave.tj>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 9:21 PM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

> > When sending the icons, via some method, to a remote client.  Who should
> > be responsible for checking that the images don't uncompress (format
> > permitting) into a 10Gb file that causes a remote DoS ?  My guess would
> > be the client is responsible... Hmm, I think I just answered my own
> > question.
> That whole question is moot if you're using an existing standard (like
> HTML IMG tags), rather than stewing your own kludge: web browsers are
> well-equipped to handle large amounts of data - they either take up all
> your virtual memory, or crash ;-/

BTW, its not "stewing your own kludge" its taking what is pretty much a
standard in other im systems and enhancing it for jabber, MSN, AIM and Yahoo
all as far as I know send character strings to represent the emoticons in
the message that the receiving client then replaces with emoticon images
when the message is displayed.
Also why mention web browsers, jabber is not a web browser ???

Richard