Definitions for "Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions"
A specification for formatting non-ASCII data for transport over the Internet.
A scheme originally developed to allow e-mail messages to contain information about their contents, specifically to identify mixed-media content as being plain text, HTML, a GIF image, an MPEG movie, or other formats. MIME has since been adopted as the standard for Web servers to indicate to Web clients the nature of the content being sent in response to a request.
A way of configuring browsers to view files that are in multiple formats. MIME makes available the exchanging of objects, different character sets, and multimedia in e-mail programs on different computer systems.