- From: Roy T. Fielding <fielding@avron.ICS.UCI.EDU>
- Date: Sun, 11 Feb 1996 19:10:32 -0800
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
>> It is a "you should've figured this one out already, but too many
>> implementors have already screwed up on it" kind of sentence. Given
>> that Mosaic was the worst culprit, I'd like to see it in the spec.
>> How about:
>
>> Upon receipt of a media type with an unrecognized parameter,
>> a user agent should treat the media type as if the unrecognized
>> parameter and its value were not present.
>
> I'm still confused. What did Mosaic do wrong that this wording would
> have told them not to do?
When we first asked people to use the version and/or level parameters
of text/html, we encountered problems due to Mosaic popping up a
"Save As..." dialog (what it does for unrecognized media types)
for any document labelled
text/html;version="2.0"
even though the browser was perfectly capable of handling that type.
.....Roy
Received on Sunday, 11 February 1996 19:18:24 UTC