- From: Ted Hardie <hardie@merlot.arc.nasa.gov>
- Date: Wed, 24 Jan 1996 13:15:31 -0800 (PST)
- To: John Franks <john@math.nwu.edu>
- Cc: alex.hopmann@resnova.com, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
> > > > That said, I must admit that I personally don't have any brilliant solutions > > for the problems posed by content negotiation. I just think its too > > important to abandon so quickly. > > It is certainly better to do nothing than to have have either a bad > mechanism or a mechanism so complicated that it is never implemented. > > John Franks Dept of Math. Northwestern University > john@math.nwu.edu > I disagree. Provided the method implemented doesn't rule out later, better methods, I believe having *any* method is better than nothing. I also believe that the widespread use of User Agent info for content-negotiation is a pretty good demonstration that many people agree.... Ted Hardie
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