From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/9364 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Steinar Bang Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Acronym lookups Date: 10 Jan 1997 09:03:54 +0100 Sender: sb@norne.metis.no Message-ID: References: <199701091928.LAA10033@newman> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by tm-edit 7.93) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035149401 18018 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 21:30:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 21:30:01 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from ifi.uio.no (0@ifi.uio.no [129.240.64.2]) by deanna.miranova.com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with SMTP id AAA09248 for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 00:20:10 -0800 Original-Received: from gw.metis.no (abel.metis.no [193.90.64.1]) by ifi.uio.no with ESMTP (8.6.11/ifi2.4) id for ; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:04:30 +0100 Original-Received: by gw.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA08666; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:03:58 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by mailhub.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id JAA20355; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:03:54 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by norne.metis.no (8.8.4/8.8.4) id JAA05273; Fri, 10 Jan 1997 09:03:54 +0100 (MET) Original-To: ding@ifi.uio.no In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of 09 Jan 1997 21:49:14 +0100 Original-Lines: 29 X-Mailer: Red Gnus v0.79/Emacs 19.34 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9364 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:9364 >>>>> Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen : > "William M. Perry" writes: >> _ALL_ of this functionality should be available to other applications >> easily, without requiring the user to load up all of GNUS/VM/W3 to be able >> to base64 a !%#*ing file. This is one of the reasons I've been slowly >> rewriting chunks of W3 to be more modular. VM, GNUS, and W3 can all >> benefit from a standard set of libraries that do: >> >> - Mailcap Parsing >> - base64 (en|de)coder >> - Quoted printable (en|de)code >> - rot13 display code >> - URL loading >> - RFC822 header parsing > Hear, hear. One reason I'm not totally grossed out (just slightly > grossed out) by the things happening with Netscape 4.0 (go read > news.software.readers) is that I rely on (at some point in the > (hopefully) not-too-far-off-future) tm (or something) to do the Mimy > things and w3 to do all html'y things. Reinventing wheels is a bore. TM woiks just fine on rgnus 0.79, in this case. I didn't even notice that someone had posted multipart/alternatives, until someone following up an article complained (the version of TM i have, it shows all the alternatives, but the HTML part, is gently tucked away). - Steinar