Pete Resnick wrote:
On 8/19/98 at 11:36 AM -0700, Jamie Zawinski wrote:
Text/enriched is much more widely deployed [...] than HTML.
On what do you base this assertion? I'm afraid I don't believe it.
You guys support it. We do. Pine does. Anyone with a metamail-compatible
mail reader supports it. Lots of old MIME-aware mailers support it. AOL
doesn't royally screw it up anymore; I don't know how strong their support
for it is.
Does MS support it? (I don't know.)
How many people do you think realize that Netscape supports it?
I'm guessing "about a hundred."
There are certainly a lot more text/html messages out there than there
have ever been text/enriched messages. For better or worse.
Seems pretty widely deployed to me. (On the receiving end we're talking
about, not the sending end.)
I think you have to look at both...
I really can't get excited about trying to deploy yet another markup
language, even if it's one that has been around (and unused) longer than
HTML. If you're going to do a markup language at all, it might as well
be HTML. HTML is here, and it's not going away.
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