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Change MySpace to wrap incoming messages in <span style="font-size: Npt;"> instead of just <font size="M">. The latter tag is suboptimal for two reasons: 1. It's deprecated 2. With MySpace the incoming messages are formatted with pt (well, basically). If we convert to the <font size="M"> value then we lose a little bit of precision when we actually display it. This should have no effect on Pidgin--it will use the outter <font size="M"> tag and happily ignore the font-size css property. But this change will benefit other UIs with more capable rendering widgets (Meebo, specifically, but I imagine this will help Adium, too). Basically it should just make the font sizes of incoming MySpace messages more accurate

For information on writing a plugin for Purple, Pidgin or Finch, go
http://developer.pidgin.im and click on API.  From there, see the HOWTOs in the
"Related Pages" section.

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doxygen and graphviz dot, then running "make docs" in the
source tree.  The documentation will be in the docs/html directory.