Re: Re: conversation history

On Apr 4, 2004, at 6:52 AM, Elektron wrote:

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> On 4 Apr, 2004, at 01:51, Graham Booker wrote:
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>>> D. Save the (server-side) nickname of the user (to track nick 
>>> changes/MSN nicknames/etc), since it's often more than just a 
>>> nickname (some people put poems there).
>>
>> Once again, goes with the attributes.  One other nice thing that I 
>> have done is the current display class (now called 
>> ClassicDisplayView) extends from what I called XMLDisplayView and 
>> thus it uses an XML back end.  This XML backend is a tree structure, 
>> so no need to worry about efficiency of parsing it.  It is only 
>> translated to text at the end.  Regardless, adding in support for 
>> more properties is just a matter of looking for them.
>
> But there should also be an event for a nick change (e.g. for IRC 
> channels, and people on MSN who put what they're doing in their nick).
>

My point here is the file format.  I was talking about the ability to 
log events, even though they are not created yet.  One thing at a time 
here!!!

> ...
>
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>> This is, of course, assuming that Fire will still have a handy and 
>> easy to use conversation history browser built in. I don't want to 
>> have to read my logs in Safari.
>
> This is like assuming that Proteus will have a handy conversation 
> browser. Sure, it may in <insert future date>, but I'm not going to 
> wait around for it (one of the reasons I stuck with Fire).
>
> - Purr
>

Well, fire is going to retain its current conversation history viewer.  
This thing will parse the xhtml files as xml, and then display the xml 
data in the format we are familiar with.