[jdev] Re: Image transfer in chat ?

[Tijl Houtbeckers]

On Thu, 21 Apr 2005 08:10:16 +0200, Nolan Eakins <sneakin at semanticgap.com>  
wrote:

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> Ulrich Staudinger wrote:
> | Some further investigation and a very good hint from Heiner revealed  
> this:
> |
> | http://www.armware.dk/RFC/rfc/rfc2397.html
> |
> |  <IMG
> |   SRC="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODdhMAAwAPAAAAAAAP///ywAAAAAMAAw
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> |   ALT="Larry">
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> |
> | Which comes even closer to my desired solution ....
> | I'd like to encourage client developers to implement this along with
> | xhtml support for pasting images from the clipboard into the chat.
>
> Umm, that's not very Jabber like.

Why not?? It's very XHTML like. I'd say this is a good reason we choose  
XHTML and not some "more simple" custom layout scheme.

> Couldn't the img src be an xmpp URI
> that specifies an id of a file transfer in its query component? The
> precise sequence of steps would need to be elaborated (ie: send img
> first, then message; the other way?; or it doesn't matter).

That's an alternative. It's far from the only way. This method here is  
good for small images that are needed with a minimum of latency. And it's  
simple.