During the Berlin XMPP sprint, some XMPP developers worked on message formatting. Previously, formatting was done using simple markup (e.g. *bold*), which sometimes leads to unintended formatting and is limited in functionality. We now decided to transmit formatting information outside of the normal text, with optional fallback to markup for legacy clients. We worked on improving the specification and on support in three different clients, including @dino.

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@fiaxh @dino What are the two other clients?
@pep @dino Developers of Prose and Renga were also working on the topic.
@fiaxh @pep @dino for Renga, we will implement receiving and displaying. For sending we will probably do it side-by-side with xhtml-im (which is still my preferred option)
@pulkomandy @fiaxh @dino fwiw slixmpp already supports reading 394, and it converts it to xhtml-im 🙂