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 GMT
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