- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:55:45 +0300
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@gbiv.com>
- Cc: Richard Ishida <ishida@w3.org>, "'Ian Hickson'" <ian@hixie.ch>, "'HTML WG'" <public-html@w3.org>, <www-international@w3.org>
On Aug 21, 2008, at 22:46, Roy T. Fielding wrote: > On Aug 20, 2008, at 11:57 PM, Henri Sivonen wrote: >> Is there software that acts on the HTTP header or meta Content- >> Language in the sense "This is a document for people who read both >> English and French"? What does software acting on that meaning do? > > That is the definition for the header field Content-Language, which is > what is referred to by META http-equiv, and yes it is used by some > content management systems as a means for authors to define metadata > that will be returned by HTTP in a response and/or used in content > negotiation to choose the most appropriate representation. How is it used in content negotiation so that software *acts on* it (as opposed to acting on something else and outputting the outcome in HTTP Content-Language)? > WGN is > one of the HTTP servers that works that way by default, though I don't > know if anyone uses it now. Apache can do that via modules. Do WGN and Apache use Content-Language as the input for a decision? > In any case, all of the http-equiv attributes are defined by HTTP. > That is its definition in HTML. It's not the definition in HTML5 as drafted. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen@iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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