[Some time ago, Brian Behlendorf wrote:] > II. Introduce conditional constructs to HTML. Basically create a new > content-type, text/cond-html, say, and have it use either marked sections > or PI's to implement a IF(feature|NOT feature), THEN (block) ELSE > (block). The "feature" would again be a registered keyword, which > browsers would be responsible for setting appropriately. Browsers which > supported cond-html would indicate so in their accept headers of course, > so there's still a big role for content negotiation. Although this sounds like a smaller-granularity situation than MIME typically handles, would not the multipart/mixed and multipart/alternative facilities of MIME be a useful way of handling this? Obvious advantages include the degree of standardization MIME has already gone through, and the fact that HTML is already using MIME constructs like Content-Type. Cheers! Leslie. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ "The difference between Believing and Understanding Leslie Daigle is a Rational Explanation..." leslie@bunyip.com Montreal, Canada -- ThinkingCat ------------------------------------------------------------------------------Received on Tuesday, 16 January 1996 18:18:50 GMT
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