- From: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>
- Date: Mon, 6 Feb 2012 12:27:37 +0200
On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 9:28 PM, irakli <irakli at gmail.com> wrote: > Responsive Web Design [http://bit.ly/f6TPB7] is an extremely important > approach/technique/movement for making web mobile-friendly. It may look like it's the most important thing today, but most of the Web isn't and won't be doing it. What goes in every HTTP request affects the number of bytes transferred for all sites, though. Ten years ago, advertising XHTML support in every HTTP request seemed like the most important thing. And we got a bloated Accept header. (I was guilty of advocating that. I have learned since.) And how often did sites care? Very, very rarely. And once IE9 finally added XHTML support, it also added SVG-in-text/html support, which pretty much removes the need for application/xhtml+xml. It would have made more sense to get the major servers fixed so that Accept: */* would have become unnecessary and then to get rid of the Accept header. It's been less than a week sense we got rid of the Accept-Charset dead weight (http://hsivonen.iki.fi/accept-charset/) and you are already proposing adding more. Everyone wants to have a piece of the UA string or the HTTP request for their idea. None of those ideas are so great in retrospect. We should Just Say No to any and all proposals to add more stuff to HTTP requests. -- Henri Sivonen hsivonen at iki.fi http://hsivonen.iki.fi/
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