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[Stu Tomlinson]

On Fri, 2007-06-01 at 21:29 -0400, Ethan Blanton wrote:
> Stu Tomlinson spake unto us the following wisdom:
> > > Maybe we need the ability to tag parts of a message as not needing 
> > > linkification, so we could send "<span linkify="false">Clint at Work 
> > > [<i>someone at gmail.com</i>]</span>" or something, and in the part 
> > > messages, could put "<span linkify="false">Clint at Work left the 
> > > room</span> (Download this: http://pidgin.im/)"
> > 
> > I feel the pain that finch might suffer. It's also starting to sound
> > like it needs buy-in from other clients, or standardization or other
> > stuff that scares me a lot.
> 
> I don't see why any standardization or buy-in would be needed; these
> are writes directly to the conversation, generated in conversation.c.
> Surely finch already ignores <span> tags that it doesn't recognize,
> right?

True. I saw "send" in the earlier message and jumped to conclusions.
Sending this markup from core to UI should be fine.

Regards,


Stu.