Re: Deploying new versions [Was: Versioning HTML at the server]

Marc VanHeyningen (mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu)
Mon, 31 Oct 1994 11:29:38 -0500


Thus wrote: "Jon P. Knight"
>On a similar line, would it be too much to ask to have browser writers for
>non-UNIX platforms agree on a location for mailcap file for their
>respective machines? At the moment, excellent browsers such as MacWeb
>keep their MIME mappings to themselves which means that you have to
>replicate the MIME typing information that you use for every new
>application that wishes to use MIME types. It would be nice if you could
>just have a single file to specify the mappings for all browsers, mailers,
>etc as on UNIX platforms. Of course, these application should still
>provide the user with nice interfaces for editing the MIME information.

I very much agree; other platforms such as Macs and DOS/Windows should
have standard locations and defined semantics for mailcap files so
that mappings could be shared and maintained in only one place.

Currently these things only exist under UNIX and, based on previous
events, I'm not sure anybody in the world other than me and Nathaniel
have a serious interest in mailcap definitions. Should have had a
mailcap BOF in Chicago. :-)

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Marc VanHeyningen  <http://www.cs.indiana.edu/hyplan/mvanheyn.html>