[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Dave]

Why would you want to put inline x elements in the xhtml segment???

 - Dave


Richard Dobson wrote:
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Julian Fitzell" <julian at beta4.com>
> To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 3:23 PM
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines
> 
> > > Thats much better than a url to an external source, but there is still
> the
> > > problem of the file format here, it should not be assumed that everyone
> uses
> > > a particular image format for their emoticons.
> > > What about this:
> > >
> > > <img src="urn:jabber-emoticon:smilie"> alt=":-)" />
> > >
> > > Just doing this solves many of the problems, although I still like my
> > > solution ;-).
> >
> > Sure, but then in either case why are we using an <img> tag?  Sure we
> > can use a tag called <img> if we want, but why not an x tag with an
> > appropriate namespace?  This doesn't save any bandwidth and now the
> > client can't use and HTML widget to display XHTML messages because it
> > won't understand the URN...
> 
> Yes I know, I forsaw the problem that a client may not understand the urn,
> thats why I like my way of defining appropriate replacements, if a client
> does not understand the x element, it can just ignore it, and it wont break
> displaying of the message it will just come out as the original text. Also
> im not sure if inline x elements are even allowed in the xhtml segment.
> 
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