Re: MIME and xmh

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From: Jack Churchill
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1992 09:45

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In article <1992Nov5.104412.2241@cc.ic.ac.uk>, mjh@cc.ic.ac.uk (Martyn at Rimmer) writes:
> My question is: Is anyone working on a fully MIME compatible version
> of xmh. The idea being that xmh would interpret a MIME message and
> display the body parts as icons which when hit with the mouse button
> would play the audio or display a image. Certain body parts (eg
> richtext or gifs?) could be actually show in xmh itself by usings
> a different widget or something. A grander solution might be to
> invent a multi-media widget.

What an excellent idea!  Sounds a bit like how Microsoft Mail works on PCs.
Does anyone have a realistic view on when such nice fronts ends will be
available on unix systems?

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Subject: Re: MIME and xmh
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Date: 8 Nov 92 09:45:29 GMT
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