Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The format is straight mime with one added feature, a content header to specify the url of the segment so that links in the document can be disambiguated. It should be an rfc, just need someone to get round to writing it up. I may do that soon because I am

Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Jun 21 00:36:26 2006, Keith Moore wrote: As someone who has actually tried producing I-Ds in alternate formats, I'm not sure that I agree that there's much benefit to having only I-Ds use the new format. People who review the document need to be able to see something close to the

Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-21 Thread Scott W Brim
From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Creating one of these archives is easy, just view the HTML page and click 'save as archive'. My copy of firefox doesn't seem to have that feature. Maybe you need to include the archive extension: http://maf.mozdev.org. When I do I get three

Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-21 Thread Keith Moore
Creating one of these archives is easy, just view the HTML page and click 'save as archive'. My copy of firefox doesn't seem to have that feature. Maybe you need to include the archive extension: http://maf.mozdev.org. apparently it's not supported on macs.

IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] A standards based, future proof, non proprietary solution to this problem is to adopt: * Use of MHTML as the archive packaging. * Use of XHTML 1.0 as the document encoding. * Use of a standard IETF defined style sheet. * Use of

Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-20 Thread Keith Moore
I like the idea. But it has to be compatible with software that people already have. How many browsers that people actually use these days support MHTML? It is supported in IE and Firefox and has been for about five years or so. That might not be quite good enough, but it's close

Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Title: Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats) The format is straight mime with one added feature, a content header to specify the url of the segment so that links in the document can