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

[Andreas Monitzer]

On Aug 29, 2006, at 15:41, Richard Dobson wrote:

>> 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

Yes, exactly like this. It would be nice if this would become a JEP,  
so other people (like me) could actually find it :) After all, this  
is something that has to be specifically implemented into all  
JEP-0071-supporting clients to work.

The other part (disco#info feature for the data protocol) is not  
solved by this, though. This could even be used for that thumbnail  
proposed on that wiki page.

andy