Some points for debate
<<Hint to folks reading this: The above line means that YOU should please
comment. Having Keith and me conduct the debate is potentially interesting
--
though I doubt it -- but distinctly unproductive in determining group
preference.>>
---- Included message:
Actually, I'm not sure I understand the difference between having a
start parameter that can indicate any body part, and always having
"start" be the first body part (as in header-set).
Only the most obvious distinction comes to mind. Header-set has an
extremely small look-ahead requirement. Since the start parameter can
be on *any* of the body parts and the length of each part is arbitrary,
look-ahead can be painful.
It's even a little bit worse than that. The multipart/references proposal
requires the mail reader to copy each of the components of the enclosing body
parts to a file, before evaluating/presenting/processing the "start" body
part.
On the other hand, it seems like any practical implementation of header-set
would need that also, just so that the module that processes the first
component of the header set would be able to read the other components.
Keith