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Karl Kleinpaste <karl@justresearch.com> writes:

> I've looked at the ChangeLog and seen the reference to new default
> alternative choice in mm-decode.el.  I'd really, really, really
> prefer to retain the buttonized alternatives' visibility, as they
> had been up to this point, but I don't see, or perhaps just don't
> understand, how to use mm-alternative-precedence and
> mm-preferred-alternative to resurrect that previous behavior.  At
> the moment, last week's "MIME Test Two" displays in 0.54 as badly
> (IMO) as in Outlook Express, showing only the image/jpeg without any
> indication that alternatives are even available.  This is wrong, I
> am convinced.

Well said.  A friend of mine, who has some experience with using and
implementing MIME, has been pleasantly surprised when I showed him the
buttonized approach to multipart/alternative; he liked it more than
anything else he's seen so far.

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