- From: rich boakes <rich@boakes.org>
- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2006 08:27:32 +0000
- To: Alan Ruttenberg <alanruttenberg@gmail.com>
- CC: Xiaoshu Wang <wangxiao@musc.edu>, danbri@danbri.org, 'Richard Cyganiak' <richard@cyganiak.de>, 'Semantic Web' <semantic-web@w3.org>
Hi Alan, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: > >> 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. ...but the sem web is not about pages humans can click on, it's about machines discovering and interpreting information, so there is no current practice. I just try to remember that the U in URI represents the Uniformity of the addressing format and not the Uniqueness of the identified resource. My "+1": When I've written RDF harvesting agents, content negotiation has been very useful and (overall) it simplified the discovery process that I had to write. Rich -- Rich Boakes http://boakes.org/category/tech/semweb/
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