[18799] in Athena Bugs
Re: linux 8.4.20: htmlview
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Tue Feb 20 15:13:09 2001
Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 15:13:03 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: Greg Hudson <ghudson@mit.edu>
cc: Jacob Morzinski <jmorzins@mit.edu>, <bugs@mit.edu>
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I'm with Jacob on this one, I think, but give me a counterexample: When
would I NOT want 'htmlview' to force Lynx to run in HTML mode?
On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Greg Hudson wrote:
> > Since we're running "htmlview", we can probably assume
> > that we know that the file is text/html. It would make
> > sense to force lynx to assume html as well.
>
> I think "htmlview" is a misnomer; what we're actually viewing is a
> URL. So, I don't think that makes sense.
>
> We could make an htmlview option to force HTML, or we could hack pine
> to use a .html suffix for its temporary filenames.
>
