- From: Smylers <Smylers@stripey.com>
- Date: Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:00:50 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org, Mike Kelly <mike@mykanjo.co.uk>
Larry Masinter writes: > > This feature would also break bookmarks: a user could bookmark a > > page's URL, believing that the URL identifies that page, yet on > > later visiting that bookmark being served different content. > > The producer of a resource which returns different representations for > different requests takes the responsibility for insuring that, from > the producer's point of view, the representations are equivalent. That they are equivalent doesn't mean that a user has no preference to which form they receive; if she was viewing one form and stored the URL to visit later, she will be disappointed if following it serves a different form -- it may contain the same content, but it wasn't what she bookmarked. Smylers -- http://twitter.com/Smylers2
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