I don't understand why we need yet another tweak to handle the
special case of text without line breaks. Why not just use
"recipient friendly HTML" for such cases? Especially since
it's already supported (for reading, anyway) by most user agents.
The issue has nothing to do with markup languages. The issue is to fix an
interoperability problem with text/plain as follows:
We can deploy 100 different uses of markup languages and it won't change
this problem.
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There are only two ways to solve this problem -- create a label to
distinguish (A) from (B), or create a way to encode the functionality of
(B) such that it is 100% compatible with (A). I proposed the former with
text/paragraph and Randy has proposed the latter.
So tell me, if one assumes the label approach (which I believe is present
in either proposal), why does that label have to be outside the content
itself? What's the difference, really, between a label and an HTML tag?
Keith