[6364] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: Versioning HTML at the server and Accept-inline
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marc VanHeyningen)
Thu Oct 27 14:29:17 1994
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 1994 19:14:06 +0100
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From: Marc VanHeyningen <mvanheyn@cs.indiana.edu>
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Chris Wilson writes:
> Tony Sanders writes:
> >Kee Hinckley writes:
> >> o Accept-inline:
> >No need. The browser should simply send the appropriate standard Accept:
> >headers when it requests the inline data.
>
> Not true. Take, for example, the instance where I have an external viewer
> for Targa images, but my browser can't handle them internally (or I don't
> want it to, since Targa images tend to be large - perhaps I only want to
> allow GIFs.)
Yes, but your browser knows prior to making the request whether or not it
intends to display the result inline or externally, and can generate
different Accept: headers appropriately.
(Conversely, if you use Accept-inline, how the heck is the server supposed
to know whether you're fetching the given object as an inline or an external
image?)
