[JDEV] Emoticons: guidelines

[Richard Dobson]

On 24/4/02 8:17 pm, "Dave" <dave at dave.tj> wrote:

> It may be silly for a Jabber client to be a Web browser, but the
> standard OOB method in Jabber is HTTP, so any Jabber client that wants
> to support file transfer already is a Web browser.  It may be silly,
> but it's true ;-)

Urm no, just because a client can do HTTP transfers it does not make it a
web browser, as by convention a web browser allows you to browse web pages
clicking on links onto other pages etc etc, being able to do HTTP transfers
is very different from being a web browser.

Phew, I was beginning to worry about you, so you didn¹t mean it had to be a
web browser at all, just that it should support HTTP file transfers.
Although I don¹t think it should be a requirement for a jabber client
because that will cause problems for "light" client developers.