> My comments are based on the Mail to www-talk by Tony
> Sanders ( [email protected] ) dated Aug 11/1993 `MIME Types for HTTP'
> which had included richtext and HTTP within the text type but
> allocated TeX and LaTex to the application type.
As I say, the experiments with richtext have not been uniformly
applauded by people with naive mail-readers. There's no reason to
suppose that text/HTML would do any better (worse, probably, because
more of the semantics of the document are contained in the mark-up).
> It seems to me that because both TeX and LaTex contain the entire
> readable text, bounded by formatting, as does HTTP and richtext that
> the intent of the document could be derived even if it was not
> rendered.
Yes, but this is not sufficient criteria to place it under 'text'.
Postscript, after all, or a GIF image of the printed page, contains
enough information that the intent of the document *could* be derived
even if it is not rendered. It just may be arbitrarily difficult.
Bill