[9218] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Content negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kee Hinckley)
Wed Nov 8 05:16:02 1995
Date: Wed, 8 Nov 1995 01:36:44 -0500
To: hedlund@best.com (M. Hedlund)
From: nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley)
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
At 5:24 PM 11/7/95, M. Hedlund wrote:
.. a very cogent message.
>1. "I want my pages to look as good as possible in every browser." Okay,
>you can produce as many versions of an HTML page as you want, but support
>for that doesn't need to be in HTTP (beyond the user-agent header itself).
>To the extent that this is a protocol issue, it should be handled by STYLE
>SHEETS, not user-agent content-negotiation. What can browser authors do to
>assist this process? Implement level 1 style sheets.
While this would help, it's not clear it's sufficient given the drastic
differences sometimes necessary to get a reasonable display. Beyond that
nit I think your suggestions are a definite move in the right direction.
Kee Hinckley Utopia Inc. - Cyberspace Architects=81 617.768.5500
nazgul@utopia.com http://www.utopia.com/
I'm not sure which upsets me more: that people are so unwilling to accept
responsibility for their own actions, or that they are so eager to regulate
everyone else's.
