[OTR-users] some questions

[Ian Goldberg]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 11:27:38AM -0700, Chad Perrin wrote:
> This strikes me as a "gaim/trillian/miranda/everybody" error.  To
> provide unsurprising behavior that enables, rather than restricting, the
> user, they should all be liberal in what they'll accept and strict in
> what they'll emit.  In other words, none of them should be showing a
> bunch of markup in your incoming messages, and all of them should adhere
> to protocol specifications carefully when encoding messages.

Of course, the problem here is that *there is no specification*.  These
are closed protocols, and the closest you can come is to see what the
"official" clients do, and try to emulate that.

   - Ian