[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[David Sutton]

Hello,

   I don't believe it is, for a number of reasons

* In order to do this, the transport would have to scan and rewrite 
every message passing both into the jabber network and out of it. 
Imagine this on a high traffic transport, such as on jabber.org.

* If the client performs the translation, you have the ability to easily 
turn off the translation. If the transport does the translation, then 
you have to filter and translate all the information back to normal if 
you want to turn off emoticon support. You may wish to do this for many 
reasons such as someone wanting to send you source code which would get 
parts turned into emoticons (especially from other networks)

* People become suspicious when "middlemen" start rewriting their 
messages for them, such as transports.

Regards,

   David
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David Sutton / Peregrine


Michael Brown wrote:
>>When sending a message to a property-IM system like MSN, the client can
> 
> ofcourse
> 
>>detect this and adapt emoticons accordingly (same for receiving), but
> 
> again, this is a
> 
>>decision that's in the hands of the client developers.
> 
> 
> This should be done at the transport level I think.  Users on transports
> should look the same to the client as native Jabber users.  (Isn't that the
> point of transports?)
> 
> Michael.
> 
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