[jdev] Re: Avatars

[Pedro Melo]

Hi,

On Nov 19, 2005, at 1:14 PM, Remko Troncon wrote:
> On 19 Nov 2005, at 13:03, Pedro Melo wrote:
>> I think that with all the SPPS stuff going around, 0084 will  
>> probably be updated to use it. And eventually it will be the  
>> standart protocol. Until then, I would support both 0008 and 0153.
>
> Personally, i wouldn't implement JEP-8. Having to upload your  
> avatar to every one of your contacts doesn't really scale well with  
> bigger contact lists, and is a high burden on a client. The plus of  
> 153 is that clients without an avatar protocol (but with good vcard  
> support) can still make use of the avatars published by JEP-153.

JEP-8 is a good fallback. Some server-side vcard stores don't deal  
with storing big fields like the ones required by the binval of  
photo, so 153 will fail silently. Besides, jep-8 would be great if  
you switch one word of the jep: it allows server side storage, but  
the recomended way is to fetch from the client.

Best regards,
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