On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum<iljit...@muada.com> wrote:
> A much better solution would be HTML, if it's sufficiently constrained. HTML > allows for the reflowing of text, solving issues with text and screen sizes. > It's also extremely widely implemented, so it's easy to display reasonably > well without special tools. It also allows for semantic tagging, allowing > for easy scraping. This seems obviously true everywhere outside the IETF mailing list. > Last but not least, just filter out anything between < and > and replace a > few &xxx; sequences and you're back to plain text. We could probably even > format RFCs such that if you remove the HTML, you're left with the current > ASCII format. Yes and no. Yes, removing markup leaves useful text, but no, it wouldn't be anything like the line-broken, paginated, headered-and-footered, legacy text format. -Tim _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
