Hacking text display applications when HTML was designed for it already and most RFC's natively generate HTML (xml2rfc), do we really have a problem to solve?
On Nov 28, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: > On 2011-11-28 18:21, Ted Ts'o wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 28, 2011 at 06:12:42PM +0100, Julian Reschke wrote: >>> >>> What's important is that things that *should* work well on small >>> displays, such a reflowing prose paragraphs, and re-pagination, do >>> so. This is where text/plain fails big (and HTML does not). >> >> That's more of an attribute of the text reader than any thing else. >> I've had readers that reflow text just fine --- far better than PDF, >> at any rate. > > It requires a format that does allow reflowing and repagination. HTML does, > PDF/A does, text/plain does not (maybe RFC 2646 would help, maybe not). > text/plain is what we use, and that's a problem that'll need to be solved. > > Best regards, Julian > > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > [email protected] > https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list [email protected] https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
