Message styles

[Youness Alaoui-2]

Hi,

I'm thinking about what we said at some point in the past about creating a standard for message styles in IM applications.

I think that Adium Message styles are pretty good, complete, and they seem to work, so what do you guys think? I don't have any experience with them, so I don't know exactly, but I didn't hear anyone complain about that... and does anyone know what should be done in order to transform "adium message styles" into "IM standard for message styles". 

It would be nice to know that every IM application that wants to implement message styles would use the same thing instead of having some client decide to create his own message style 'spec'.

Anyone from Adium here? 

What do you think ?

KaKaRoTo

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[Evan Schoenberg-2]

On Jul 22, 2008, at 2:49 PM, Youness Alaoui wrote:

> I'm thinking about what we said at some point in the past about  
> creating a standard for message styles in IM applications.
>
> I think that Adium Message styles are pretty good, complete, and  
> they seem to work, so what do you guys think? I don't have any  
> experience with them, so I don't know exactly, but I didn't hear  
> anyone complain about that... and does anyone know what should be  
> done in order to transform "adium message styles" into "IM standard  
> for message styles".
>
> It would be nice to know that every IM application that wants to  
> implement message styles would use the same thing instead of having  
> some client decide to create his own message style 'spec'.
>
> Anyone from Adium here?
>

*waves*

Kopete uses the Adium style format, as well. The Kopete team found a  
few things they wanted in the format to make it a bit more universal;  
Adium has since added those extensions as well. http://kopete.kde.org/chatwindowstyleguide/index.html 
  is their doc page; everything labeled "Kopete extension" isn't at  
this point.

Skype on Mac OS X uses the style format, as well, though that's not  
advertised.

I don't know of any holes in the format, but ifhttp://trac.adiumx.com/wiki/CreatingMessageStyles
  is missing anything that would be wanted or is unclear, I'll be  
happy to help refine.

Cheers,
Evan


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