- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:26:04 -0500
- To: Aaron Swartz <aswartz@upclink.com>
- CC: las@olin.edu, www-talk@w3.org
Aaron Swartz wrote: > > On Friday, September 7, 2001, at 11:44 AM, Lynn Andrea Stein 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. Yes, but how often does that cause folks to just not bother? I encouraged Lynn to send this request here because the MIME specs say[1] that unknown text/* types should be treated as text/plain, but web browsers don't do that. So I'd like this noted as a Common User Agent Problem. http://www.w3.org/TR/cuap > What's the use case you're envisioning? The W3C web site serves up .rdf files as text/xml; they should show up like text/plain by default; or at least: there should be an option... [1] [[[ 4.1.4. Unrecognized Subtypes Unrecognized subtypes of "text" should be treated as subtype "plain" as long as the MIME implementation knows how to handle the charset. ]]] -- (MIME) Part Two: Media Types Request for Comments: 2046 November 1996 http://www.nacs.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/MIME/2046/rfc2046.html -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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