- From: Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net>
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 04:16:55 +0200
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com
- Cc: www-tag@w3.org
* noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com wrote:
>Question: is this a good long term design for the Web? It seems to mean
>that you can't transmit a bit of text that happens to resemble XML at its
>start, for example. It's quite fragile in that respect. What was a nice,
>simple orthogonal text/plain media type (text is any sequence of Unicode
>characters) becomes much more ad hoc (all text sequences except those that
>happen to look like a continually changing set of other things).
Like here:
The Internet media type / MIME type of N-Triples is
text/plain and the character encoding is 7-bit US-ASCII.
-- http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/REC-rdf-testcases-20040210/
Plain text does not provide for or allow formatting commands,
font attribute specifications, processing instructions,
interpretation directives, or content markup.
-- http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt
Well done.
--
Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
68309 Mannheim · PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 · http://www.websitedev.de/
Received on Wednesday, 16 August 2006 02:17:10 UTC