[description in RFC...]
You're not missing anything. I was only suggesting translation into HTML as
a method of creating breaks between sections or pages, as Thorvaldur had
requested.
>My reading of this is that a web browser ought to handle FF and TAB in
>text/plain in the traditional fashion. I don't know of any browsers
>that will page text/plain on formfeeds, but that is a quality of
>implementation issue that should be taken up with the browser authors,
>not an HTML issue.
As you point out, web browsers ought to handle text/plain with all of its
allowed controls properly. I've just never seen a browser that does. I
agree that formfeeds in text/plain is a browser issue, not one of HTML.
Perhaps you have pointed us to the solution of our discussion: directing
that features of non-HTML specific MIME types be implemented more
thoroughly by browser authors.
Murray
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Murray M. Altheim, Information Systems Analyst
National Technology Transfer Center, Wheeling, West Virginia
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