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Take a breath please
Authored by: tknarr on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 01:00 PM EDT

Actually we were doing it before 1993 (RFC1521 came in that year, which means it'd been in use for long enough that the problems had been hashed out and it was ready to be codified). It was how e-mail clients like elm displayed content of any type that they couldn't handle themselves. HTML would've been just another content type to be displayed by a helper program (a Web browser in this case).

The only difference now is that we've pulled the HTML rendering engine into the e-mail client itself and it's rendering into a child window of the e-mail client (the reading pane window) instead of into a child window of the helper program's main window (the browser's content pane). In the process of course we went through a hybrid approach where eg. the browser (Internet Explorer) was packaged into a COM interface which could be embedded into another application (the e-mail client) and draw directly into the application's windows while remaining external to the application.

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Authored by: cbc on Thursday, June 20 2013 @ 02:26 PM EDT
Please refer to project Xanadu. Embedded documents via links in documents is
obvious after 1975.

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