[8949] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: new html extension proposal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Masinter)
Mon Aug 21 13:49:12 1995
To: ddubois@spyglass.com
Cc: AChen@jgc.com, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Daniel DuBois's message of Mon, 21 Aug 1995 10:24:16 -0700 <9508211724.AA01724@hook.spyglass.com>
From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
Date: Mon, 21 Aug 1995 10:47:31 PDT
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
> The functionality described in this X-ALTSRC tag would be very similiar to
> the Content Negotiation currently in HTTP. I would be against this HTML
> addition if only for the sole reason it would slow down awareness and use of
> the existing content negotiation capabilities of HTTP.
More than that 'sole reason', content negotiation allows for a server
to support embedded gif, jpeg, pdf, and java. X-ALTSRC restricts the
service to support only one kind of extension instead of multiple
ones.
