Vincent Lefevre <vinc...@vinc17.net> writes: > On 2012-08-26 19:55:49 +0200, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote:
>> Now obviously there's a small border; I guess IETF's idea is: "Can it >> be exectued/interpreted directly or by some interpreter? Then >> application/*" > Or compiled & executed, I suppose. > But what if the intent is to display the source (with specific style), > not to run it? Yes, switching from text/* media types to application/* media types for scripting languages is quite annoying for email. There are a fair number of email clients out there that, rightly or wrongly, will not display inline attachments of type application/*, but will do so for text/*. This switch therefore means that attached scripts have to be saved and opened separately rather than viewed directly inline in the mail client, which is occasionally quite awkward. Or, alternately, one has to attach scripts as text/plain, thus losing the language information that could otherwise be conveyed. (There are some, although not many, mail clients that, given proper MIME tagging of language information, will do syntax highlighting of attached code.) -- Russ Allbery (r...@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87harojpap....@windlord.stanford.edu