Re: Reinstating XHTML-IM (XEP-0071)
Schimon Jehudah via Standards <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Mar 2026 12:51:59 +0200
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Andrew. Greetnigs. If so needed, we can improve the specified "fallback" or specify a new one. Also, the specification of XHTML-IM has a SELECTION of allowed tags, not all tags are accepted (e.g. </table> is not defined). So, we might want to reduce the allowed tags, at the very best. Regards, Schimon On Sun, 15 Mar 2026 15:29:24 +0500 Andrew Nenakhov <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > > Standards mailing list -- [email protected] > > To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] > > > > _______________________________________________ Standards mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected]