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

[Peter Saint-Andre]

Andreas Monitzer wrote:
> 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. 

Do you prefer that solution to the data: URI?

> 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 JEP Editor is always open to receiving proposal submissions. :-)

> 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.

Sure, we'd specify that in the proposal.

Peter

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Peter Saint-Andre
Jabber Software Foundation
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