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From: Steinar Bang <sb@metis.no>
Subject: Re: Guessing based on file extension
Date: 03 Jan 2000 13:05:40 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <whyaa75pij.fsf@viffer.metis.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Simon Josefsson's message of "02 Jan 2000 22:24:02 +0100"

>>>>> Simon Josefsson <jas@pdc.kth.se>:

> Nothing is changed in the article buffer (it still says
> 'application/octet-stream'), but there's a new entry in the
> right-button popup-menu which say 'View as application/ms-word' or
> whatever the guessed MIME type is.

> IMHO this would make it easy enough to use for Gnus users, by the same
> time it make it obvious that viewing the attachment as a
> application/ms-word file might be the Wrong Thing under some
> circumstances and leave the choice to the user.

I like this approach.



  reply	other threads:[~2000-01-03 12:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-01-02  7:24 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2000-01-02  7:43 ` Daniel Pittman
2000-01-02  8:02 ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 16:09   ` Alan Shutko
2000-01-02 22:42     ` Hans de Graaff
2000-01-02 15:35 ` Per Abrahamsen
2000-01-02 16:11   ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-02 21:24 ` Simon Josefsson
2000-01-03 12:05   ` Steinar Bang [this message]
2000-01-04 19:41 ` François Pinard
2000-01-04 23:32   ` Kai Großjohann
2000-01-05  0:02   ` Stainless Steel Rat
2000-01-05  7:47   ` Steinar Bang
2000-01-05 18:29     ` Kim-Minh Kaplan

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