- From: Ernest Prabhakar <prabhaka@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 1 Dec 2006 10:54:23 -0800
On Dec 1, 2006, at 10:42 AM, Kyle Marvin wrote: > I see the separation but I'm still missing a clear justifiication > for it. I don't see content-type as having anything to do with the > "audience". It's about what media format you'd get back if you > dereference the href and rel is about how you can interpret/ > interact with it. I feel like the primary audience for content- > type is likely to be used in selecting some type of parser when > retrieving the resource. Orthogonal to this, the "rel" value > assigns some semantic meaning to the resource (what does the entry > or feed describe) and might also specify what interaction model you > might expect via the href (ex. "edit" implies APP edit semantics on > an entry resource). +1 to what Kyle said -- Ernie P. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20061201/e290c56e/attachment.htm>
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