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Joe English wrote:
> Paul Prescod wrote:
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>>Len, the Web architecture was always designed to make it easy to switch
>>HTML out. HTML has been an optional feature since day 1. [...]
>>[...] The web browser is the application that was designed to
>>handle every content type and new content types and tasks all of the
>>time.
>
>
> That's not how the Web worked on day 1 though.
>
> The original version of HTTP only delivered HTML;
> MIME types weren't added until HTTP 1.0. (You could
> stick a <PLAINTEXT> tag at the top of a text file,
> but that was part of the HTML layer, not HTTP.)
>
> <URL: http://www.w3.org/Protocols/HTTP/AsImplemented.html >
I stand corrected. Sometime around 92/93, it became possible to swap out
HTML for something else.
Paul Prescod
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