[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Richard Dobson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <dave at dave.tj>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Re[2]: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines


> If people insist on refusing to accept English as a standard language
> even for filenames, they'll have an awful lot of trouble accepting :star:
> either.  With that in mind, I fail to see any merit in the argument you
> presented below.

Urm, huh ??
You are now suggesting the world should adopt English as its language??
Would certainly make a lot of things easier ;-), but its never going to
happen.
Why would they have a problem with the text codes, if my suggested method is
used the text in the message could be :star: if you are english or :etoile:
if you are french, and each client would still know that they represent the
star emoticon, and if you want to go down the route that they would have a
problem with the ico attribute being star then it could be defined as a
number if really necessary (although i think that bit could be fine as
star).

<econ txt=":etoile:" ico="star"/>

Rich

>  - Dave
>
>
> Richard Dobson wrote:
> >
> > But what if a client wants to use its own set of images? There is no
easy
> > and definate way of being able to replace all the images in the message
with
> > the correct ones, your argument that everyone will keep the file names
the
> > same cannot be guaranteed, especially when it comes to people from other
> > countries who may want to the the appropriate word in their language for
the
> > file name, or who have previously done that and do not want to change it
> > all.
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Dave" <dave at dave.tj>
> > To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 23, 2002 2:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: Re[2]: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines
> >
> >
> > > Grrr ... if you want to use emoticons from a non-j.o place, simply use
> > > the URL of the other location instea of the URL on the j.o repository.
> > > (I thought I said that twice already.)
> > >
> > >  - Dave
> > >
> > >
> > > admin at jabber.fsinf.de wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On Mon, 22 Apr 2002, Richard Dobson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Also hosting the emoticons on j.o servers will waste lots of j.o's
> > > > > bandwidth when it does not need to be.
> > > >
> > > > I bet there are users and/or client developers who want to customize
> > their
> > > > emoticons... "my smiley shall look different from yours"... ;-) so
no
> > > > server stored emoticons.
> > > >
> > > > Regards
> > > >
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