Digital toolbox. Controlling interests [MIME]

Lately, I've been sifting through the murky world of electronic mail file attachments-specifically, how MIME (Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions) is creating a cross-platform standard to make sending and receiving files via e-mail increasingly painless, but e-mail is really just the beginning of MIME's usefulness. Today's World Wide Web browser is where the action is headed, and MIME is nested there in the background as well.