- From: Laurence Lundblade <lgl@qualcomm.com>
- Date: Tue, 4 Feb 1997 08:04:58 -0800
- To: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>, www-html@w3.org
Text/enriched pre-dates text/html and the web by years. It was designed to be very easy to strip out and probably half the e-mail users on the net use mailers that can strip it out or display it partially. (Pine, Netscape, Eudora, to mention a few). The easy striping was kind of nice because you don't have to send the two copies via multipart/alternative to have backwards compatibility. At any rate Eudora will be generating HTML in the next release LL At 3:46 PM -0800 1/27/97, Walter Ian Kaye wrote: >At 12:58a +0200 01/28/97, Markku Savela wrote: > > >Does anyone know what browser supports this garbage? > > > > >><bold><color><param>FFFF,0000,0000</param><bigger><bigger><bigger>FOR > > > > Not garbage, nor HTML. It looks like MIME text/enriched or > > text/richtext. Defined before HTML existed or about parallel to it, > > but never really caught on. > >Good guess -- it is indeed text/enriched, as specified in RFC 1896. >This style info is generated by Eudora Pro 3.0 (it can be turned off >by the sender, by simply clicking a radio button in Settings...). > >__________________________________________________________________________ > Walter Ian Kaye <boo@best.com> Programmer - Excel, AppleScript, > Mountain View, CA ProTERM, FoxPro, HTML > http://www.natural-innovations.com/ Musician - Guitarist, Songwriter
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