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Re: HTML in MIME mail

1994-11-16 19:08:08
At 10:43 AM 11/15/94, Ned Freed wrote:
material in the first place. I've seen highly readable richtext, HTML, and for
...
I have also seen completely unreadable richtext, HTML, and RTF. For that matter

indeed.  and this important.

As a consequence, an enhancement to the Mime spec, which can be pursued as
a pure-add-on, is to specify the requirement that any specification for a
subtype of content-type text must provide sufficient formatting rules to
facilitate reading the text content with a simple viewer, i.e., one not
familiar with the details of the subtype.

d/

ps.  a statement of such rules for quoted-printable would be pretty
helpful, too.


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