On 8/19/98 at 2:29 PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote:
Are you proposing the use of a profile of HTML, which requires the <html>
prefix and permits only the use of the <p>, <pre> and <br> tags?
something like that. maybe without the <html> prefix.
But with the quoting convention for "<", ">", and quotation marks.
and maybe not an enforced profile, just a set of conventions for
generating recipient-friendly HTML (instead of multipart/alternative)
We could encourage senders to stay within the recipient-friendly subset,
and encourage readers to be able to render the recipient-friendly subset
even if they can't do full HTML.
As Ned is so fond of saying, "That dog don't hunt." Text/enriched is
probably more widely deployed in mail programs than text/html, it has a
much simpler syntax (only "<<" for quoting the "<" symbol and "<nofill>"
for doing forced-wrap text), and still people wouldn't accept it, let alone
generate it reasonably. I think using any kind of internal markup that is
not fully text/plain compatible is a losing battle.
pr
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