[JDEV] Jabber.org Client Chart

[Michael Brown]

To elaborate on this...

Headline support is important, because if your client can't receive messages
with type='headline' then it isn't going to be much use to people who want
to use something like an RSS Headline Agent.  I can remember talking to an
author of such a script who said that he was sending all messages as
type='normal' because he had found that some popular clients simply ignore
messages of type headline.  (This seems stupid to me, and a good reason to
leave the headline feature column in the list of clients on Jabber.org)

At it's simplest, headline messages should be treated similar to normal
messages (although don't forget that more often than not they are going to
have URL's attached in the jabber:x:oob namespace).  There rest is up to the
client author - since usually the user won't give as much priority to
messages automatically generated by a computer as they would to messages
coming from a human, it would be a good idea to let the user prioritize
these events.  For example, "email style" jabber clients could use a
separate page and sort headline messages into that.  "ICQ style" clients
could choose not flash headline messages in the system tray, or maybe batch
unread headline items together to make it easier to skim though and pick out
items of interest.

Yabber currently will display a headline message in the same way as a normal
message, but I wouldn't go so far as saying that it has headline support.

Michael.

> Leave it there for sure.  Headline support should be more than flashing a
> different icon...
>
> Michael.
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm thinking the "Headline Support" column should be removed.
> > Apparently even  my client Psi qualifies, simply because it shows
> > headline messages using a  different icon alert.  Jonathan, feel free to
> > flag Psi as having headline  support then.
> >
> > OR, remove the headline support section entirely, since the
> > qualification is  almost pointless.  What do others think?
> >
> > -Justin
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