Howdy.
I'm looking at page http://www.math.temple.edu/~zeilberg/KisterReply
with Communicator (4.5 for Mac), and I'd like to know how it works.
What I observe:
1) Navigator displays it exactly as Messenger would a mail message,
with headers formatted according to the option I last selected
in MESSENGER's View > Headers > All | Normal | Brief menu.
(Note: Navigator's View menu has no such options.)
2) If I save it (as source) and then open the file, it renders as
just plain text with all headers. Same with View > Page Source,
except that anything in <brackets> is colored. No html tags.
3) If I open it in Composer and save, I get something completely
different: full html code, the headers are now in a <TABLE>.
4) View > Page Info says: File Mime Type: message/rfc822. This Mime
Type does not appear in Preferences > Navigator > Applications.
Similar behavior under Navigator 3.04 or Mozilla 0.9.2 for Mac, and
Communicator 4.70 for Linux. Opera for Linux renders the page as text.
Other Linux browsers (Mozilla 0.9, Galeon, Skipstone, kfm, Dillo)
return only an excuse about unhandled Mime type. Gnome-help-browser
offers to render it as either html or text, but only text works.
Questions:
a) What is the official spec as to how a browser *should* display
such a page?
b) Suppose I have a mail file, and want to post it on the web in
the same way. How do I do it?
c) Suppose I have a mail file, and want to convert it to html as
in 3). How do I do it?
hysterion
