Very true, Jim. However, an upgrade to a newer better-standardized MIME version would automatically affect all those who would move to that version and there would be no need for... "bickering" of any type. That's why "imposing" standards this way is a lot more efficient. Those not upgrading would pass up on a very valuable opportunity to fix this type of difficulty.
This is akin to systems accepting new functionalities offered by newer versions of things like HTML and so forth. Besides, this would not involve forgoing anything, just adding "new features". Who could ever be against a move like that? Marcus On Wed, 27 Mar 2002 22:07:57 James R. Frysinger wrote: >Ma Be wrote: >> >> No problem, Bill. >> >> Your last comment below reminded me of another very annoying issue that still >upsets me greatly. It's absolutely atrocious that we still haven't addressed the >issue of special characters properly in the last versions of MIME. By golly, isn't >it about time that it starts accepting AT LEAST, at a minimum, ALL special characters >of Western civilizations??? This really infuriates me! >> >> Also, it's utterly unacceptable that they do not tackle the superscript/subscript >issue, either. How long will we still have to wait till computers catch up with us, >humans?... :-( >> >> NOTE: And not that it would be so terribly difficult to implement such changes... > > If there's one thing that my work on standards has taught me, it's that >universal agreement and compliance is incredibly difficult. It's not the >technology that is the problem, it's the people and the variety of >opinions they hold, couple with the variety of options they possess. > > To make something so standard that it's routinely available without >thought or effort, one must either have monopolistic control or have an >idea that has no conflicting alternatives. Even with Microsoft's alleged >95 % of the market, look at how much difficulty there is in sharing >documents between Windows and MacOS systems! > >Jim > >-- >Metric Methods(SM) "Don't be late to metricate!" >James R. Frysinger, CAMS http://www.metricmethods.com/ >10 Captiva Row e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Charleston, SC 29407 phone/FAX: 843.225.6789 > See Dave Matthews Band live or win a signed guitar http://r.lycos.com/r/bmgfly_mail_dmb/http://win.ipromotions.com/lycos_020201/splash.asp
