[9726] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Microsoft IE -- it just gets better and better
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Arnt Gulbrandsen)
Mon Jan 29 15:14:47 1996
Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 21:06:56 +0100
From: Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@troll.no>
To: Jeremie Miller <jmiller@mwci.net>
Cc: mwm@contessa.phone.net, www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: Jeremie Miller's message of Mon, 29 Jan 1996 13:19:29 -0600
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
www-talk@w3.org
> I am not sure if it has already been discussed, but why not have a
> header similiar to Accept-Charset, like "Accept-Features:" and and a
> list of standard HTML features like tables, frames, forms, etc... so
> that the browser can explicitly describe what it can do?
Accept-Features: XYX really means "the page you are about to send will
not tickle a bug in my support of XYZ" which sounds bad to me, given
that XYZ will typically be new and weird.
--Arnt
