- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 02:57:35 -0800 (PST)
- To: Murray Altheim <murray@spyglass.com>
- Cc: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>, http-wg%cuckoo.hpl.hp.com@hplb.hpl.hp.com
On Mon, 26 Feb 1996, Murray Altheim wrote: > http://www.stonehand.com/murray/draft-altheim-fpi-ptd-00.txt Murray - it would be cool if you wrapped lines at 80 characters or less in this draft.... or used HTML of course. :) > Appendix B discusses a possible feature negotiation scenario. I haven't > updated the e-text to match my handwritten notes, but it provides a rough > sketch with some things I have or need to fix. I will try to update this > document to a version altheim-02 this week, incorporating these notes. It > is currently not ready for draft submission, so please consider it a > work-in-progress. The important thing about Appendix B is that, unlike Larry's strawman, it's a proposal for *client-side* conditional HTML, instead of server-side negotiation. I strongly believe client-side is the way to go, for a myriad of reasons I outlined previously in a message to www-talk [1]. It still requires a feature set registry of some sort, be it IANA or de facto (in a document describing a new feature set, a keyword is declared and if it doesn't clash, is reserved, even in the absence of a DTD or formal proposal). Instead of going into diatribe mode here (particularly since we're not talking about a standards-track document) I'll try and see if I can round some of us up during the IETF to see what others think on the issue. Brian [1] - http://www.eit.com/www.lists/www-talk.1996q1/0018.html --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/
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