- From: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 10:08:25 -0500
- To: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>
- Cc: <danbri@danbri.org>, "'Richard Cyganiak'" <richard@cyganiak.de>, "'Semantic Web'" <semantic-web@w3.org>
On Nov 7, 2006, at 2:56 PM, Xiaoshu Wang wrote: > -Alan, > >> Personally, I can't tell why content negotiation is a good >> idea in any context. To my mind it's hiding interesting >> information in the innards of a network protocol instead >> having it explicitly available, in say, OWL or RDF. >> >> If you think I'm way wrong, please do flame me. I'd like to >> be able to see that it *is* a good idea, if that's possible. > > I won't make comment on if it is a good idea or not, but content > negotiation > is a necessary mechanism. Accept is in the same spirit of Accept > Language, > right? Do you think Accept Language is a good or a bad idea? Don't know. Personally I prefer when a list of available languages is listed on the web page and I click where I want to go. This seems to be the current practice. -Alan
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