- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 11:59:28 +0200
Jonas Sicking wrote: > ... > Similarly content negotiation is something I would say is even more > doubtful that it has provided any value. The only site where I can > remember seeing content negotiation actually used is on w3.org, an > organization that is safe can be considered experts on web standards. > ... google.com does use it for language selection (at least it did a few months ago when Ian claimed nobody was using it :-). Also keep in mind that Content Negotiation is widely and successfully used for negotiating compression (Content-Encoding: gzip) and different machine-to-machine formats (xml vs json). > ... > However even here things immediately failed. When firefox started > claiming that we supported application/xml, several urls stopped > working since the browser was sent the XML file used to generate the > specification, rather than something that actually usefully could be > rendered. > ... Did it come with an XSLT PI? BR, Julian
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