- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 11:52:02 +0200
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- CC: Mark Nottingham <mnot@mnot.net>, HTTP Working Group <ietf-http-wg@w3.org>
Ian Hickson wrote: > ... > A tool like 'wget' could automatically support things like <link > rel=stylesheet>, <link rel=icon>, and whatever other such extensions > browser vendors come up with, without having to ship new releases, if it > could update its behaviour based on the registry. > ... Again: how is this supposed to scale? How frequently do you expect clients to lookup the registry? Should they cache? Should they implement a negative cache? > ... >> Does this work? > > Seems reasonable, though I am still skeptical as to the use of the title* > feature in practice. It seems better to me to just have one title > attribute, in one language, and to upgrade HTTP to support UTF-8 in > headers. > ... These are orthogonal issues. You *could* define that there must be only one title. Also, HTTP can not easily be upgraded to change the header encoding; this has been discussed a lot over here in the last years, and my understanding is that we would need to change the major version number. BR, Julian
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