Re: The TEXT/HTML Content Type in e-mail

[Jacob Palme <jpalme@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 6 Nov 1995, Ed Levinson wrote:

> My purpose was to point out a gap between existing email UAs and Web
> UAs; one which needs to be addressed.  I named the bridge across that
> gap a "receiving agent".  I see no more complexity here than exists in
> the problem were trying to solve.
> 
> Some benefit exists in separating out the
> issues and allocating their solutions to separate modules.  (Ye olde
> divide and conquer approach ;-).  MUAs tranform MIME entities into files
> and provide access to the headers.  Browsers display HTML, reading
> local files and stuff off the net.  That's precisely the gap we're
> discussion and the receiving agent addresses; how to get the body
> parts into files that the browser can access.

The problem with your idea is that it requires changes in the coding
of all existing Web browsers. This will take a long time to get
implemented. I would much prefer a solution where most existing
Web browsers can be used as they are.

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Jacob Palme <jpalme@dsv.su.se> (Stockholm University and KTH)
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