- From: Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.ca>
- Date: Sun, 23 Jun 1996 19:38:18 -0500
- To: www-international@w3.org
> From: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com> > Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 04:15:43 PDT > > Perhaps it's wishful thinking, but the upgrade to 1.1 may also allow > origin servers to selectively send the "right" labels to 1.1 clients > even while being bugward compatible with 1.0. It has long been clear that the default charset in HTTP is both bogus and detrimental. I tried, to no avail, to have the mention removed from HTTP/1.0, supposedly informational but giving false information in that case. Now HTTP/1.1 will compound the error by making this bogus default a standard, with absolutely no justification in either current practice or technical argument. This default should go, and charset be made compulsory. -- Francois Yergeau <yergeau@alis.com> Alis Technologies Inc., Montreal Tel : +1 (514) 747-2547 Fax : +1 (514) 747-2561
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