On Tue, 16 Apr 2002 07:38:42 +0700
James Clark <> wrote:
>
>
> > MIME people have different opinion about text/*. See:
> >
> > http://www.imc.org/ietf-xml-mime/mail-archive/msg00204.html
>
> Do these arguments a really apply to RNC? In that message, Ned says:
When I asked:
> You appear to claim that text subtypes
> have to be readable by casual users.
He wrote:
> This was always the underlying intent.
He also mentioned text/css as "one of the more egregious ones".
You wrote:
>The difficulty I see with this argument is this: if the user
>doesn't want to see the RNC, why are they trying to open the thing with the
>browser in the first place?
and
> 2. Suppose a user receives a RNC file as MIME part. Because it's
> text/something, it get's displayed as plain text. Is this bad?
I don't want to open this can of warms here in the RELAX NG TC. This is
a MIME issue and should be discussed at IETF (maybe, in the IETF XML-MIME ML).
I'm not a fan of MIME. I think that it needs a significant surgery. But
if different groups of people adopt different interpretations of and improvements
to MIME, the result will (or has been) chaotic.
Cheers,
Makoto
