[Bug 25636] In-place editing of messages

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=25636





--- Comment #2 from Mikhail Zabaluev <mikhail.zabaluev at nokia.com>  2010-03-02 05:55:59 PST ---
(In reply to comment #1)
> "WARNING: Consideration of this document has been Deferred by the XMPP
> Standards Foundation. Implementation of the protocol described herein is not
> recommended."... so I don't intend to consider XEP-0058. It doesn't seem to be
> the same thing requested for Skype anyway.
> 
> How does Skype actually represent these edits?

IIRC, it changes properties for a message object.

> The idea of discarding the original message worries me, though: it seems as
> though this basically provides a way to make message history untrustworthy. We
> should probably specify that UIs should provide access to the old versions
> until/unless explicitly deleted.

I did not demand that old message versions be deleted, it should be the
client's policy. The scheme with a 'supersedes' header looks good to me. (NB:
surely there must be an e-mail RFC where we can lift the header name from).


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