[JDEV] JEP 0038 ((Emot)Icon Styles) Updated

[Adam Theo]

In this spec the htp://jabber.org/protocol/icon-styles namespace is only 
used as a feature identifier for browse/disco/fneg, since the namespace 
is not included in message/iq/presence packets anywhere. But there is a 
future use planned for it, which brings in your second question of why 
not specify a namespace for use in <x/> tags in messages to tell 
recipients of messages what icon styles were used by the sender to 
create the message. I decided that that functionality was best left out 
of this core spec, and made the subject of a future JEP. It seemed to me 
to be an add-on feature, outside the scope of the icon style packages 
themselves. But I'm working on this "Icon Style Announcement" JEP 
already. I should have something out next week, unless someone (such as 
yourself?) wants to take over and do it with my blessings...

Sebastiaan Deckers wrote:
> Please expand on what the http://jabber.org/protocol/icon-styles 
> namespace is to be used for.  Does it serve a purpose other than telling 
> clients you support this specification?  (Is that even necessary?)
> 
> I see you still have not added my suggestion of an <x/> element in the 
> <message/> with the name and version of the emoticon style that was used 
> to compose the message body.  Can you please tell me why not?  It works, 
> and has been doing a perfect job in my client since june.
> Such a system would also be the first step in building the 
> infrastructure needed to look up and retrieve unknown emoticon styles.