> The way I think of it, the ultimate email format would be similar in feature
> set to a good word processor, and Eudora & Cyberdog proved that this was a
> lot more achievable with text/enriched. Anybody who was on the Cyberdog
> news group who remembers Mary Grimsley's messages will agree. Years later
> in Entourage, we can't create messages like that. I think we only ever
> wound up with html mail because Netscape was handling both web browsing and
> email, and it was a lot simpler for them to use the html rending engine they
> already had, than to write a new rendering engine for email.
MIME is pretty danged sufficient for generating a rich email.
Including inline display of arbitrary attachment types.
Of course, neither MIME nor text/enriched are page layout languages, so the
actual display would be client specific. Which is supposedly the win of
using HTML since HTML is a "layout" language of sorts.
Anyhow, the problem lies in the editor/viewers lack of functionality, not
necessarily in the available protocols. There was a perfectly good MIME
editor/viewer/mailer supporting arbitrary inline display some seven years
ago. But it couldn't compete with *free*...
mikel
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