On Aug 26, 2004, at 17:20, Ave Wrigley wrote: > Is it feasible to have the UEs update their lists dynamically? The ISO > lists are hosted in a (fairly) reliable place. After all, this sort of > thing is done for referencing standard DTDs in non-standalone XML > pages. Real-world Web browsers do not fetch the DTD from the network. They either do not parse the DTD at all or use a *heavily* abridged local DTD (ie. fake it). The local bogo-DTD is basically a list of entity declarations. The DTD stuff on the Web is mostly an illusion. I consider the way W3C specs keep up the illusion harmful. ("Strictly conforming" and all that stuff.) As for country lists, I think the Way That Works(tm) is that the country list comes from the server hosting the Web app. If you want to have that easily, I think asking the Struts or Barracuda developers to add it would be a better idea that including the data in the UA. Having the data come from the Web app works with old browsers, too. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://iki.fi/hsivonen/Received on Thursday, 26 August 2004 13:09:09 UTC
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