[Adium-devl] [ANN] msn-pecan 0.0.17 released

[Felipe Contreras]

On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:20 PM, Peter Hosey <boredzo at adiumx.com> wrote:
> On Nov 30, 2008, at 10:19:06, Felipe Contreras wrote:
>>>
>>> In other news, recently I've been fidling with the message styles and
>>> I've noticed that they are HTML.
>>> Now I have a question, is it possible to interpret valid html code on the
>>> message style? What I have in mind is beeing able to see you tube (or
>>> equivalent) videos embebed in a conversation.
>>
>> That's certainly possible, but only people with the same capabilities
>> would be able to see it, not people with the official msn messenger.
>> That goes against libpurple's policies.
>
> I don't think he was talking about Libpurple. Message styles are handled by
> Adium.

Yes, but libpurple, or more specifically, the protocol plugin,
specifies what kind of html can be handled. So even if the message
style stuff allowed that kind of thing the protocol plugin might not.

So yeah, obviously both the UI and the backend must support it in
order to work, and the backend doesn't.

-- 
Felipe Contreras