[JDEV] Emoticons & Genicons

Wed Apr 24 03:32:50 CDT 2002

This is virtually the same thing that I have already suggested, I am
preparing to write up a document on it, would you like to help ?

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sami Haahtinen" <ressu at ressukka.net>
To: <jdev at jabber.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 24, 2002 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [JDEV] Emoticons & Genicons

> On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 12:03:17AM -0400, Adam Theo wrote:
> > My only question right now is whether I should separate "emoticons"
> > (those emotive-based graphics) from "genicons" (my own term for
> > non-emotive, generic graphics of beer mugs, mail envelopes, house keys,
> > moons, and such). I think I should, since I don't want to clutter the
> > "emoticon space". But, if I do separate them, should I include them in
> > the same JEP, or two different JEPs?
>
> imho it should be two different JEPs as there is only a limited amount
> of emoticons (assuming we don't think of 'laughing while holding a finger
> in my ear' emoticons) adn pretty much unlimited amount of genicons.
>
> After reading your document i propose to use jabber:x:genicons for
> genicon usage:
>
> <message to="ressu at ressukka.net">
>   <body>
>      The Cat is in the bag, honestly!
>   <body>
>   <x xmlns="jabber:x:genicons">
>     <genicon image="cat"/>
>     <genicon image="oldbag" string="bag"/>
>     <genicon src="http://www.ressukka.net/wink.png" string="honestly"/>
>   </x>
> </message>
>
> the image attribute would contain generic strings, ones that could be
> stored locally, as not all who use jabber have internet access, then
> there is the string attribute which defines which bit of the text should
> be replaced and last but not least there is the src tag which allows
> fetching the image from the internet directly, just like your XHTML
> example.
>
> it would then be up to the client to look up matching icons, or request
> them from the sender.
>
> The strings could be cached and used on other strings too, or the short
> hand version would be to call then with :imagename: (ie. :beer:)
> while using <x/> tags, we allow the text to be rendered cleanly with
> clients that do not support genicons.
>
> this way the genicons could be just about anything, where emoticons
> would be predefined.
>
> Sami
>
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