Re: [Last-Call] New Version Notification for draft-crocker-inreply-react-07.txt

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On 2/26/2021 2:54 PM, John Levine wrote:
At this point I don't see any compelling reason to limit the reactions
to Unicode emoji and exclude text reactions like:-(


Which means that the data in that body-part can be anything, since there's no obvious way to restrict it.


That level of data flexibility is likely to make MUA design choices pretty limited, which in turn might limit the utility of the mechanism.

For example something like the common mechanism of showing the symbol and then putting a count next to it, for the number of responses that were received using it, does not work if the 'symbol' can be a long string of arbitrary text.

d/

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