Re: LYNX-DEV Mime type support.

[Michael Warner]

On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Klaus Weide wrote:

> On Tue, 29 Apr 1997, Larry W. Virden, x2487 wrote:
> 
> > [Klaus, I think] wrote:
> >
> > >I guess nobody has ever asked for that before.  (Or not in a long time.)
> > >The text/enriched type isn't used much AFAIK, and if it is used then
> > >in mail not Web pages, so maybe it doesn't belong in lynx.
> > 
> > I think it is necessary - if someone has a Mail to Web interface for
> > a mailing list (and many do) then lynx has to be able to read the files.
> 
> I don't know what kind of Mail to Web interface you have in mind.
> To have any relevance in this context, it would have to present Lynx
> with text/enriched (properly labeled as such) and not convert to HTML.
> Have you seen anything like that?

Perhaps news rather than mail?  Brad Templeton, for instance, has been
pushing for some sort of 'html-like' mark-up, in some very minimal
format, perhaps included as part of the headers.  In theory, it would
be invisible to readers that don't use it.  The idea generated vast
quantities of heat, and maybe even a little light, on
news.software.readers a few months ago.

-- 
Michael Warner
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