From: Charles Lindsey (chl@clw.cs.man.ac.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 28 1999 - 03:37:28 CDT
In <Pine.LNX.4.10.9910272211500.25815-100000@slip-32-100-243-21.ma.us.prserv.net> greg andruk <meowing@banet.net> writes:
>On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Charles Lindsey wrote:
>> "Reading agents SHOULD honour any Content-Disposition header that is
>> provided (in particular, they SHOULD display any part of a multipart for
>> which the disposition is "inline", possibly distinguished from adjacent
>> parts by some suitable separator). In the absence of such a header, the
>> body of an article or any part of a multipart with Content-Type "text"
>> SHOULD be displayed inline.
>I'd maybe want to see this to spell out which flavors of multipart should
>be treated this way. The above default ought to work for /mixed and
>/related, but not for those darned /alternative thingies.
I think the issues are orthogonal. The new paragraph tells you how you
ought to display whatever has been offered for display (various parts of
some multipart/mixed). The discouragement of multipart/alternative is
covered in a separate paragraph further down.
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