[9243] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Content negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Thu Nov 9 10:21:59 1995
Date: Thu, 9 Nov 1995 14:32:12 +0100
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
Cc: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SGI.3.91.951108142712.17261P-100000@fully.organic.com> (by brian@organic.com)
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Wed 8 Nov 1995 15:09:46 -0800,
Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Shel Kaphan wrote:
> > And by the way, I wasn't talking about course-grained, dynamic
> > content-negotiation per se, but about the fine grained and constant
> > properties of browsers such as "can-center-text",
> > "tables-can-contain-forms", etc.
>
> Crucial design goal decision time, folks:
>
> Do we want to support, through mechanisms in HTTP, the ability to express
> a bitmap of capabilities within specific content types (like HTML), or
> not?
In HTTP? For a browser to say, in its request, "the answer to this
request will not tickle a bug in my support of forms inside tables"
seems patently ridiculous.
If a server wants that detailed browser information, it _must_ obtain
the information from some source which can be updated as new bugs in a
browser is discovered. (By browser I mean not only name but version
and even compilation time.)
--Arnt
