Re: charset Reality Check

>   BTW, Accept-parameter is not useful; charset is the only parameter
>   shared by multiple media types.  We could invent some new parameters,
>   but that only makes the problem worse.  Also, a quality attribute is
>   only useful if we add it to the content-negotiation algorithm --
>   something I would like to avoid (like the plague that it has become).

I think the image/* types might share information about color & size,
just as the text/* types would share information about character sets.

Received on Wednesday, 11 January 1995 01:35:12 UTC