[9550] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTML variants and content negotiation
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Tue Jan 9 23:56:07 1996
Date: 09 Jan 1996 07:48:00 +0200
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nazgul@utopia.com (Kee Hinckley) wrote:
>If you combine this with the browser passing in infor-
>mation then you could go either way. You could have a
>smart server which parses the information and only
>sends what is necessary, or you could have the browser
>do the parsing.
[...]
>However, and this could be a big "but", our server
>extensions are outside of the language, thus allowing:
>
>#if Tables
><table>
>#else
><pre>
>#endif
>
>If you are doing the extensions within the context of
>HTML parsing, that may not be a viable structure. So
>at that point you could see a 2-3x expansion in size
>in some cases.
FYI. The server allowing such things is already there.
Have a look at http://spinner.infovav.se/.
Besides the fact, that it is one of the fastest servers
I have ever seen, it implements a preparsing mechanism
that allows fancy things (look for SPML - Spinner Mark-
up Language).
By
Toens
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