Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting
On 7/8/05, Haines Brown <brownh@hartford-hwp.com> wrote:
> Until then, markups are a pain. The passages I've quoted above are
> an example. I had the impression the "=" to mark a carriage return was
> a peculiar effect of Windows editors, and my emacs re-fill command
> treats them as an ordinary character, not a line wrap. This is not
> stupidity on emacs' part, for how does a Windows application
> distinguish a "=" control character from a plain ASCII character?
> Also, the "=3D" hex notation. My browser, when confronted with it does
> not interpret it properly as "=", but literally as "=3D". I suspect
> this markup is intended solely for Internet Explorer (in order to
> promote Billy's monopoly).
That's not markup, it's MIME encapsulation. OK, perhaps you can
consider quoted-printable encapsulation as a form of markup, but it's
distinctly different than something like XML or HTML.
--
Michael A. Marsh
http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh
http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
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