[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Richard Dobson]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave" <dave at dave.tj>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 12:25 AM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines


> Modifying a processor to interpret URNs instead of URLs is no biggie.
> Besides, we can always just use relative URLs, and scratch the processor
> patching process.

You may not think its a "biggie" but what about client authors who do not
want to support this, or clients that are no longer maintained where there
is no alternative for people to switch to, it will break maybe even crash
clients that do not support the urn method, if you use relative urls there
is no guarantee the images will even exist on the machine where they are
being defined as being, so it will break in any clients not programmed
specifically to support this method of doing emoticons, both of the ways you
suggest (and before you say it they wont be able to download the images from
a central repository as clients not programmed to support this method of
emoticons wont know anything about it, and still for something like
emoticons that should be simple and universally compatible you cant just
link to an external site for the images). It is still better to have this as
an addition to the normal text and html so that it will be simply ignored in
clients not specifically programmed to support it and the message can be
displayed without much of a problem.

Rich