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Excerpts from internet.mmm-people: 8-Nov-92 Re: MIME and xmh Jack
Churchill@tcgould.t (1070)

> 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?

Well, one "nice front end" to MIME that's here today is the latest
Andrew release.  Coming soon, I've heard, are nice front ends that
understand MIME from NeXT, Sun, and Z-mail.

Excerpts from internet.mmm-people: 8-Nov-92 Re: MIME and xmh Markku
Savela@ames.arc.n (1851)

> I am approaching the problem from
> bottom up and not making a single "multi-media widget". Instead, I am
> trying to build a widget for each content type. 

I think this is a good idea as far as it goes, but you might consider a
hybrid strategy of the kind now implemented by Andrew.  Andrew now
recognizes many MIME content-types and displays them in an integrated
manner.  Whenever it hits an unrecognized type, however, it hides it
behind a "button" object.  When you click on the button object, it runs
metamail on just that body-part.  This means that you can have the nice
integrated interface for the most common media types, but can fall back
to the flexible configuration of metamail and mailcap files for the
unrecognized media types.  This hybrid strategy seems to work very well
for Andrew, at least.  -- Nathaniel