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Paul Prescod wrote: > Len, the Web architecture was always designed to make it easy to switch > HTML out. HTML has been an optional feature since day 1. [...] > [...] The web browser is the application that was designed to > handle every content type and new content types and tasks all of the > time. That's not how the Web worked on day 1 though. The original version of HTTP only delivered HTML; MIME types weren't added until HTTP 1.0. (You could stick a <PLAINTEXT> tag at the top of a text file, but that was part of the HTML layer, not HTTP.) <URL: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html > --Joe English jenglish@f...
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