[OTR-users] some questions

[Chad Perrin]

On Sat, Dec 30, 2006 at 02:02:31PM -0500, Ian Goldberg wrote:
> 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.

Of course, in such circumstances you must simply get as close as
possible.  The principle itself still holds, though.

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