- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Wed, 11 Jan 1995 02:13:50 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> BTW, Accept-parameter is not useful; charset is the only parameter
>> shared by multiple media types. We could invent some new parameters,
>> but that only makes the problem worse. Also, a quality attribute is
>> only useful if we add it to the content-negotiation algorithm --
>> something I would like to avoid (like the plague that it has become).
>
> I think the image/* types might share information about color & size,
> just as the text/* types would share information about character sets.
Is such a definition available for image/*? Personally, I'd rather avoid
the whole issue, because the next thing someone is going to ask for is:
Accept-font: YIKES
Pre-emptive content negotiation just doesn't work. Perhaps we should try
to define a matrix of common client characteristics/behavior, and just
provide a header for that. E.g. one of
Agent-profile: graphic, color=24, xwin
Agent-profile: graphic, grey=8, mwin, unicode
Agent-profile: graphic, bw, xwin
Agent-profile: text
Agent-profile: braille
or maybe not. I don't see any good way to go about it.
......Roy Fielding ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine USA
<fielding@ics.uci.edu>
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Received on Wednesday, 11 January 1995 02:21:47 UTC