Re: The <PLAINTEXT> HTML tag: Good for ASCIIArt?
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 21 Apr 1998 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On 19 Apr 1998 18:48:39 GMT, ilt...@sci.fi (Ilmari Karonen) posted:
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|So, why all this? I think the reason was HTTP 0.9, a very primitive
|protocol which did not support "Content-Type:" (or any headers at all
|for that matter). So everything retrieved over HTTP 0.9 was assumed to
|be HTML, and if you wanted to put plain text on the web in those days
|you had to stick <PLAINTEXT> on the first line.
|
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Yup - that`s what my HTML book says :)
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