[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Julian Fitzell]

No, I was supporting your proposal... just didn't come out sounding that 
way :)  I didn't mean the x tags had to be inline, just that I prefer 
having an x tag with an appropriate namespace that identifies it as an 
emoticon rather than a standard <img> tag that doesn't tell you that.

Julian

Richard Dobson wrote:
> I dont know but that is what the person was suggesting
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Dave" <dave at dave.tj>
> To: <jdev at jabber.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 1:07 AM
> Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines
> 
> 
> 
>>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
>>>
>>>
>>>>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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