- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 10 Jan 2005 20:47:03 +0200
On Jan 10, 2005, at 19:33, Jim Ley wrote: > but that's bad, it puts extra layers in the system if we don't need > another transformation where information is lost we shouldn't have it, > we're supposedly building something for the future here - email > transformed to javascript, transformed to HTML, transformed to a > particular CSS based rendering - introduces extra points of > complication, and we lose semantics at each level. This isn't a good > idea! It wouldn't make sense for browsers to support any and all possible internal formats of the server-side apps. The obvious remedy in this case is using a dedicated native email app that supports RFC 2822, MIME and format=flowed directly. However, a similar remedy does not work for all apps that are implemented on a server with an HTML+JS+CSS-based UI displayed in a browser, because unlike mail apps, company-specific *custom* apps don't automatically come in multiplatform flavors if implemented as native apps but still benefit from the multiplatformness offered by using a browser as the UI shell. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/
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