Re: Reinstating XHTML-IM (XEP-0071)

Andrew Nenakhov <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:29:24 +0500
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I was once appalled when this xep was deprecated with no viable
replacement, but that was a long time ago and its ship has sailed:
Since then we moved to formatting based on references, which also provides
a nice way for a fallback to clients that don't support them.

Fallback for this one, however, requires including a full alternative
message body, which looks very ugly to me, and it gets even more ugly if we
want to save/forward this message. Also, I remember endless complaints
about html tags in messages from users who communicated with Pidgin, which
at the time did put tags right in <body>

So no, I prefer it to stay as it is.

(Message styling as described in XEP-0393 is also not a very good idea that
uses input format as a wire format)

On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 at 06:28, Schimon Jehudah via Standards <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Greetings.
>
> I am not an XSF member, yet I am interested to reinstate XHTML-IM.
>
> I have useful ideas that would be possible with XHTML-IM.
>
> Nevertheless, even without new ideas, I deem that XEP-0071 should be
> reinstated with added security concerns;
>
> Email software also handle (X)HTML, and so many other software, while
> implementing security measures; and
>
> Therefore, I deem that, XEP-0071 should be reinstated.
>
> Kind reagrds,
> Schimon
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