AW: [jdev] Re: Avatars

[Heiner Wolf]

Hi,

0008 says: "If the first method fails, the second method that should be
attempted by sending a request to the server...". 

Well :-) that's easy. Don't implement storage it in the client. Thank
you to the authors for so much foresight, flexibility, and freedom.  

As I see it, the best way currently is to use 0008 with server storage
and be comaptible with others storing a PHOTO in the vcard (0153). But
0008 is not supported by newer servers. If you want to be compatible
with all servers, use 0153 only. If you want to save the world, then you
could implement 0084 on SPPS and guide us to the light. 

hw
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>-----Ursprungliche Nachricht-----
>Von: jdev-bounces at jabber.org [mailto:jdev-bounces at jabber.org]Im Auftrag
>von Pedro Melo
>Gesendet: Sonntag, 20. November 2005 15:26
>An: Jabber software development list
>Betreff: Re: [jdev] Re: Avatars
>
>
>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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