Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <hallam at gmail.com>]

Well one approach would be to simply write a spec for using MIME as an
archive format for HTML and associated documents as has been supported
in Internet Explorer for a decade.

MHT is a very simple format that uses IETF standards in a very obvious
way. We could probably get Firefox to add support just by asking.

Another approach would be to use vector graphics markup which is XML
for the diagrams.

Another would be to simply stick with the ASCII art.

On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 11:05 AM, Stewart Bryant<stbryant at cisco.com> wrote:
> Tim Bray wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum<iljitsch at muada.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>
>>>
>>> A much better solution would be HTML, if it's sufficiently constrained.
>>> HTML
>>> allows for the reflowing of text, solving issues with text and screen
>>> sizes.
>>> It's also extremely widely implemented, so it's easy to display
>>> reasonably
>>> well without special tools. It also allows for semantic tagging, allowing
>>> for easy scraping.
>>>
>>
>> This seems obviously true everywhere outside the IETF mailing list.
>>
>
> The showstopper has always been with figures which need to do in separate
>  files.
> How do you  manipulate the collection of files as a single object?
>
> At least with pdf you know you have the whole thing.
>
> Stewart
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