KD016 Orthogonal specifications

* KD 016
5.1. Orthogonal Specifications
"""the software developer community would benefit from being able to  
find all HTTP headers from the HTTP specification (including any  
associated extension registries and specification updates per IETF  
process). Perhaps as a result, this feature of the HTML specification  
is not widely deployed. """

Not true. Use case. I'm a technical writer, I'm explaining how to  
create an HTML file, foo.html, I give a link to the html representation  
of foo.html and therefore served as text/html. Now I want to explain  
the source code, and I would like to use the benefits of the object  
element to display the source code of the same file. So I set in my  
object element the text/plain mime type.
Though because of precedences rules of HTTP over HTML, the only way to  
do is to not specify on the server side the mime type but only in the  
meta of the HTML file. So that once it can be displayed as an HTML file  
or it can be displayed as a text file.

In fact right now, the only possibility to do it without problems is to  
create
	foo.html and foo.html.txt
which is quite stupid.
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                                          norm

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