[jdev] Re: Image transfer in chat ?

[Richard Dobson]

> Quoting Nolan Eakins <sneakin at semanticgap.com>:
>> I'd be interested in seeing it happen. Thinking about it just now we may
>> also want to extend it beyond images and to sounds or any other file. An
>> img tag wouldn't work with the latter, but would be worth looking into 
>> imo.
>
> Heh.  I would be interested to see more people bring that up, as I was
> complaining about not having <object> a while back and people were fairly
> adamant that it would never have a place in Jabber.
>
> The sad thing is that with <object>, <img> is redundant.

Sure well ill make sure that the overal mechanisms wont necessarily restrict 
it for only img, all it really is is a way to link extra downloadable items 
into an XHTML message using the industry standard cid URI, so if jabber 
XHTML ends up supporting object some time in the future it should work fine.

Richard