AW: AW: [JDEV] groupchat <presence/> behaviour??

[Heiner Wolf]

Don't exactly know whatr you mean by "native". Actually there is not
much native to groupchat beyond <presence/> messages. 

Basic avatars are PNG images. Fetched from URLs or from server side
storage (URLs preferred :-) More advanced avatars will soon show
animations. 

The avatar description (what PNG-URL, what animation plugin, data-URL
for the plugin) is from a storage:client:avatar chunk. 

Participants post a digest of their avatar to the room. New participants
receive the digest with the initial <presence/> and compare it with
thier avatar cache. If different they fetch the changed avatar. 

In addition clients will use the role and more information to add
whatever tags like icons to the avatar, e.g. stars for admins, small
stars for admins of other channels of the same server, big stars for
owners, etc. 

I am working on these avatars for quite a while now. Once my specs are
settled I'll post them. If you want to discuss, feel free to ask
details. I could also post a typical message dump, if that's of
interest. 

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Dr. Klaus H. Wolf
bluehands GmbH & Co.mmunication KG
http://www.bluehands.de/people/hw
+49 (0721) 16108 75

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Von: Peter Saint-Andre [mailto:stpeter at jabber.org]
Gesendet: Montag, 7. Oktober 2002 23:38
An: jdev at jabber.org
Betreff: Re: AW: [JDEV] groupchat <presence/> behaviour??


Hmm, how are you doing the avatars? Are they "native" to groupchat? I'm
not an avatar person myself, but I can see that people might want them.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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