- From: David Perrell <davidp@earthlink.net>
- Date: Thu, 1 May 1997 13:42:45 -0700
- To: "J-F Pitot de La Beaujardiere" <delabeau@iniki.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Cc: <galactus@htmlhelp.com>, <www-html@w3.org>
Jeff de la Beaujardiere wrote: > I believe that transparent content negotiation in HTTP (see > http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/) will provide that functionality. > Clients can negotiate on the basis of media type, charset, language, and > features. Feature negotiation uses "feature tags" to identify "a capability > of a user agent or a preference of a user." This is a very interesting proposal, but it implies a separate file for each possibility, doesn't it? This would certainly be a boon in the case of muli-language documents, where the bulk of the content is different. However, there are so many non-related features that may or may not be enabled on a UA, a separate file for each possible combination isn't practical. With an active server page, content with applicable features can be composed from one file. David Perrell
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