Skype Web does show previews not only for pictures loaded to its servers, but also for any direct links to images and for links to webpages that provide a preview image and a short description in meta tags (f. e., Twitter, Lightshot). However, such previews seem not to be displayed by skype4pidgin.
Of course, it would be better to make a separate, protocol-aware plugin for fetching previews by links, similar to one that exists for Gajim. But am I right that MSNP allows to fetch such previews almost as simple as previews for internal images are? Or in official clients this is done on client side and has nothing to do with the protocol?
Skype Web does show previews not only for pictures loaded to its servers, but also for any direct links to images and for links to webpages that provide a preview image and a short description in meta tags (f. e., Twitter, Lightshot). However, such previews seem not to be displayed by skype4pidgin.
Of course, it would be better to make a separate, protocol-aware plugin for fetching previews by links, similar to one that exists for Gajim. But am I right that MSNP allows to fetch such previews almost as simple as previews for internal images are? Or in official clients this is done on client side and has nothing to do with the protocol?