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- >Thomas A. Fine writes:
- >> As far as the <PRE> discussion, I'm not sure I understand what the
- >> problem is with interpreting new lines. The visual line length
- >> won't change for having added anchors.
- >
- >This is true. As far as I can tell, the only real objection that's
- >been raised specifically to the increased real line length is that
- >long lines aren't safe to mail. This problem can easily be
- >circumvented by using MIME & metamail (plug plug, although I have
- >nothing to do with it -- I'm just interested in seeing MIME used in
- >WWW).
-
- If that's the case then I'd have to say that it's ridiculous to try
- to fix mail (or any other transport mechanism) by mucking up HTML with
- crud. Anyway, threre are already various programs that will let you
- break lines for use with mail. Http shouldn't care at all about lines.
-
- Yes, MIME would be good. But would you make WWW pass around MIME
- documents only, with HTML being one of the Content-Types, or would
- you have http handle several different doc types, including both
- MIME and HTML?
-
- tom
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