- From: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2001 13:24:07 -0500
- To: las@olin.edu
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 01:10 PM, Aaron Swartz wrote:
>> I really wish that browsers would give me the option of
>> telling it that
>> a particular mime type represents just plain text, i.e., that
>> it should
>> be viewed using the browser itself rather than an external
>> application.
>
> I assume you mean this on the client side because on the server
> side you can just send it as text/plain. On the client side I
> suppose you can save it as a text file and open it.
Never mind, I get it now. You want "view as text" to be in the
error message that says "I don't know this mime type, should I
save it, pick an external application or give up?"
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