

[Bug 10954] New: plain text processing breaks text/plain; format=flowed

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Date: Fri, 01 Oct 2010 13:57:55 +0000
To: public-html@w3.org
Message-ID: <bug-10954-2495@http.www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/>

           Summary: plain text processing breaks text/plain; format=flowed
           Product: HTML WG
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Windows NT
            Status: NEW
          Keywords: NE
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson)
        AssignedTo: ian@hixie.ch
        ReportedBy: julian.reschke@gmx.de
         QAContact: public-html-bugzilla@w3.org


"When a plain text document is to be loaded in a browsing context, the user
document, create an HTML parser, associate it with the document, act as if the
appropriate processing of the input stream."

Handling text/plain this way seems to make it impossible to handle
format=flowed properly (unless I'm missing something about <pre>).

Oddly enough, the next paragraph does mention format=flowed (which is what RFC
2646 defines):

"The rules for how to convert the bytes of the plain text document into actual
characters are defined in RFC 2046, RFC 2646, and subsequent versions thereof.
[RFC2046] [RFC2646]"

I assume that RFC2646 is mentioned here by mistake.

That being said, it would be cool if HTML5 *allowed* UAs to do the right thing
with format=flowed.

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Received on Friday, 1 October 2010 13:57:57 UTC
