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Doesn't "plain text" have a standard "container" in the form of MIME that also allows attaching things like signatures in a standard format? 7-bit ascii has be
by tmzt 13y ago
Doesn't "plain text" have a standard "container" in the form of MIME that also allows attaching things like signatures in a standard format?
7-bit ascii has been around for a lot longer than these formats which mostly represent a dump of the state of a formatting engine into something like XML in a file tree and compressed with PKZIP.
- chalst 13y agoI was thinking of something like this when I wrote my comment. MIME does function as a container model, but it's not plain text and it could only be a standard with supplementation. But there's a UNIX-y sense in which this is all human-readable text representations. I'm not really familiar with the internals of ODF, but OOXML, while it does capture quite a lot of UI state, is actually quite clean and represents the intuitive document structure rather well.