[Standards-JIG] Inline Images for JEP-0071: XHTML-IM

[Richard Dobson]

> Further, XHTML limits the data-protocol images to 1024 bytes in 
> base64-encoding, including the header with the mime-type and encoding 
> declaration. This is only suitable for very small images (custom 
> emoticons perhaps, which is an important application for that). For 
> larger images, a different solution has to be found. MIME-mails 
> support this by allowing to reference images attached to the mail in 
> <img/>-tags by using a "Content ID" in the attachment's header. Since 
> XMPP doesn't support attachments (wouldn't make any sense), this isn't 
> a suitable solution here. However, the image could be transparently 
> transferred using a file transfer method (like JEP-0096 or JEP-0166) 
> and referenced from the XHTML inside the message packet. This would 
> probably require a new JEP.
Something like this?

http://wiki.jabber.org/index.php/XHTML_Inband_Images

Richard