On Tue, Feb 19, 2002 at 10:51:07AM -0500, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > I don't find content negotiation useful in this case, if only for its > lack of transparency. > > Try resolving: > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema > > in both Mozilla and Microsoft Internet Explorer, and you can marvel at > the difference. I could have found the schema from Mozilla - as could a > program - using the RDDL file sent to Internet Explorer, but instead > it's just dropped on my head. > > Yecch. Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater here; if we relied on current implementations (especially those mentioned!) as a metric of a mechanism's usefulness, we'd have gotten stuck long before now. Implementation of conneg in browsers is generally woeful; that doesn't mean that conneg is useless in other situations (such as a machine negotiating what representation it wants). -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/Received on Tuesday, 19 February 2002 13:14:44 GMT
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