"Ben Liblit" <liblit(_at_)zex(_dot_)z-code(_dot_)com> writes:
On May 16, 3:53pm, Chris Newman wrote:
Perhaps a simpler and better approach would be to have a new
multipart type, say "multipart/embedded", where the first part is a
hypermedia format (e.g. text/html) with references to the other parts.
For an existing proposal along these lines, see
<draft-ietf-mimesgml-multipart-rel-00.txt>:
...
This draft even gives an example of embedded images, though in that case it
is a JPEG embedded within a general SGML document.
I'm aware of multipart/related, and feel the optional "start"
parameter makes it unnecessarily complex. In order to parse a
multipart/related with a start parameter, you need to make multiple
passes across the message.
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