- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2002 15:17:39 -0500 (EST)
- To: henrikn@microsoft.com (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, chris.ferris@sun.com (Christopher Ferris), xml-dist-app@w3.org
+1 > I think we have to be careful not to encourage "smart" implementations > and be very crisp on that we see it as a buggy implementation. The Web > has very bad experience with HTTP applications that try to be smart with > respect to content types, URI rewriting, content modifications etc. The > problem is that after some time, the smartness turns into a serious > interoperability problem because people sort of start to rely on it in > some cases but not in others. I would strongly encourage us to stay away > from promoting this as much as possible. > > Henrik > -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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