Re: Translations

Larry Masinter:
>
[...q values...]
>Originally these were designated as ordinal (just used for ordering),
>not cardinal (the amounts had some other significance).

Actually, these values originally had the significance of representing `the
degradation of qualty by the ratio of the final to initial quality', so they
were cardinal.

See http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/Protocols/HTTP/Negotiation.html , which was
written by Tim BL in 1992.

>Larry

Koen.

Received on Monday, 20 January 1997 04:37:24 UTC