Re: No more buttons by default?

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no> writes:

> But I worry that this behaviour will make us incompatible with other
> MUAs that don't use the content-disposition header to tell us whether
> this is an inline mime type or an attachment.
> 
> I think MIME-as markup may be workable, or maybe even the best
> behaviour if we have 
> 	Content-Disposition: inline
> in the message parts.
> 
> But I think Gnus should default to attachment behaviour, in the
> absense of content-disposition headers, because that's probably closer 
> to what the composing MUA expects.

"Attachment" behavior means not displaying the part at all, according
to RFC2183.  The user should be notified that the part exists, but it
should not be automatically displayed.

Not that I think we should look too much at what other MIME readers
do, but this might be nice to know how others do it.  So here's
today's assignment:

1) Find a MIME mail/newsreader, and
2) See how it displays the next two messages I'm going to send.  These 
   are called "MIME Test One" and "MIME Test Two".
3) Do screenshots.
4) Post URLs to these screenshots.

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