From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/22478 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: comments on pgnus-v0.80 Date: 17 Apr 1999 09:14:40 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035160390 29492 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 00:33:10 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 00:33:10 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from farabi.math.uh.edu (farabi.math.uh.edu [129.7.128.57]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24854 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:39:54 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (lists@Sina.HPC.UH.EDU [129.7.3.5]) by farabi.math.uh.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id CAB10813; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:38:56 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:39:24 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [204.252.123.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA02836 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 02:38:53 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from quimbies.gnus.org (larsi@ppp063.uio.no [129.240.240.68]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id DAA24806 for ; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 03:38:40 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by quimbies.gnus.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id JAA13809; Sat, 17 Apr 1999 09:38:00 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Michael Shermer's _Why People Believe Weird Things_ X-Now-Playing: Stereolab's _Switched On_: "Super-Electric" Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Alexandre Oliva's message of "07 Apr 1999 08:21:50 -0300" User-Agent: Gnus/5.070082 (Pterodactyl Gnus v0.82) XEmacs/21.2(beta3) (Aglaia) X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ writes: > This is a requirement of the RFCs that define MIME: they say the last > alternate part should be presented by default, since it is supposed to > be the most appealing one, whereas the first ones are supposed to be > closer to plain-text, so that MIME-uncapable readers will get to the > real text before html garbage. Yup: 5.1.4. Alternative Subtype [...] Systems should recognize that the content of the various parts are interchangeable. Systems should choose the "best" type based on the local environment and references, in some cases even through user interaction. As with "multipart/mixed", the order of body parts is significant. In this case, the alternatives appear in an order of increasing faithfulness to the original content. In general, the best choice is the LAST part of a type supported by the recipient system's local environment. Hm. But Gnus doesn't really respect this. It only looks on `mm-alternative-precedence', and ignores the part order. Er. Hm. Gnus could choose the last part it's able to display, but the user must also be able to say that some types are discouraged. How about getting rid of `mm-alternative-precedence', and instead have a `mm-alternative-discouraged-precedence', that would say in which order parts are unwanted. For instance, if the user says ("text/html" "text/enriched") then that would mean that text/html is really discouraged, but "text/enriched" is less discouraged. If you get my drift. This variable would default to nil, meaning that the precedence by default would be the order of the parts. -- (domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.) larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen