On Wednesday 08 January 2003 05:52 pm, Jeremy Dunck wrote: > >Maybe lack of interest, and the complications people have with content > >negotiation hint that it's not finding a sweet spot? > > Has anyone tried to find a sweet spot? Common usage tends to gravitate to the sweet spot... in which case Apache is on the high end of common usage. > I agree (since the common expectation is that an URL ending in "jpg" is a > JPEG image), but this tight binding to a particular representation is > exactly what negotiation was meant to address. Must all UAs support JPEG? No, but practically, that is becoming a non-issue for a significant fraction of commonly supported types. > Would you be similarly annoyed if you had this: > <img src="http://foo.bar.com/foo"/> > which returned JPG to your UA, but returned SVG to some else's? Only if I was trying to depend on it returning a particular representation. > Or do you mean that people don't generally care enough about the > possibility of alternates to be bothered? That's what seems to be the case.Received on Wednesday, 8 January 2003 20:59:19 GMT
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