[JDEV] XHTML Inband Images update

[Trejkaz Xaoza]

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On Wed, 21 Jan 2004 08:51, Richard Dobson wrote:
> > 'drop down emoticon' trend, people who want a specific image can send the
> > image, and emoticons can return to being purely pretty-printed text like
> > they're supposed to be.
>
> The main reason is so you can include arbitary images without having to
> reference them on an http server will all the problems that entails, but
> yes it can be used for custom emoticon graphics as well as other arbitary
> images you wish to display to someone in a chat, but it is designed to be
> flexible so that it is not restricted to images and could perhaps be used
> for other things like sound effects.

There's your issue.  If you use <img/> you won't be using it for sound 
effects.

> Use of the object tag is specified as MUST NOT be supported in the XHTML-IM
> specification in JEP-0071 so we cannot use that.

This sounds more like a problem with XHTML-IM than with using the <object/> 
tag.  We would have to make them change their minds on which tag to use and 
mark <img/> as MUST NOT or SHOULD NOT, since the <img/> tag is about to 
become deprecated.

The only issue I can think regarding <object/> is it has one more attribute 
you have to specify (the content type.)

> No it originally stood for inline (hence the title), plus ive look it up on
> dictionary.com and imbedded does seem to be a valid spelling, although yes
> I think it is usually spelt with an e.

Yeah, I see.  "imbedded" is listed as an alternative definition but judging by 
the fact that "embedded" has several more entries, it's probably the "right" 
spelling.

I keep getting pissed off with my boss over the same issue, every time he 
leaves one spelling in a document I'm correcting it to the other.  Gotta have 
consistency though. :-/

TX

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