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Re: Content negotiation

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Turner)
Thu Nov 9 04:18:10 1995

From: Stephen Turner <S.R.E.Turner@statslab.cam.ac.uk>
To: www-talk@w3.org
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 09:17:54 +0000 (GMT)
In-Reply-To: <199511081722.MAA26733@raja.destinyusa.com> from "segmentation fault" at Nov 8, 95 12:22:15 pm
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org

segmentation fault (who???) wrote:
-> 
-> Perhaps something like
-> <img src="c.xyz" mimetype="image/jpeg"> would give the browser
-> the information it needs to determine whether it can display
-> this resource, or what additional types it should request.
-> 

That would perhaps be a possibility if the people writing HTML were experts.
But most, and increasingly many, are not.

-- 
Stephen R. E. Turner
  Stochastic Networks Group, Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge
  e-mail: sret1@cam.ac.uk  WWW: http://www.statslab.cam.ac.uk/~sret1/home.html
  "I always keep one big file in case I run out of space." A colleague of mine


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