[9638] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTML variants and content negotiation
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leslie Daigle)
Tue Jan 16 18:25:14 1996
From: leslie@bunyip.com (Leslie Daigle)
Date: Tue, 16 Jan 1996 18:18:11 -0500
In-Reply-To: Brian Behlendorf's message as of Jan 7, 23:45
To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>, www-talk@w3.org
Cc: leslie@bunyip.com
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
[Some time ago, Brian Behlendorf wrote:]
> II. Introduce conditional constructs to HTML. Basically create a new
> content-type, text/cond-html, say, and have it use either marked sections
> or PI's to implement a IF(feature|NOT feature), THEN (block) ELSE
> (block). The "feature" would again be a registered keyword, which
> browsers would be responsible for setting appropriately. Browsers which
> supported cond-html would indicate so in their accept headers of course,
> so there's still a big role for content negotiation.
Although this sounds like a smaller-granularity situation than MIME
typically handles, would not the multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative
facilities of MIME be a useful way of handling this?
Obvious advantages include the degree of standardization MIME has
already gone through, and the fact that HTML is already using MIME
constructs like Content-Type.
Cheers!
Leslie.
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