- From: Judith Slein <slein@wrc.xerox.com>
- Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 11:36:00 PST
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: w3c-dist-auth@w3.org
At 09:56 AM 10/31/96 PST, Larry Masinter wrote: > >The primary reason why content negotiation ALLOWS for multiple >representations without specific URLs for each of those >representations is to support those situations where the >representation is computed on-the-fly, e.g., different charset >encodings (EUC, Shift-JIS) of the same Japanese document, different >image representations (GIF, PNG, JPEG) of the same original image, or >just different pages constructed on the fly from a database. > >I'd claim that in all of those situations, 'versioning' will not apply >to the individual representations anyway. > >Are there any situations you can imagine or explain where the >versioned representations don't conveniently have URLs but should be >versioned independently? > >Larry > If there are cases where variants are NOT computed on the fly, what should happen when someone creates a new version of the resource (by editing one of the variants)? I assume the user would normally prefer for the other variants to be brought into synch automatically -- for new versions of them to be generated from the one he submitted. Do we want to do anything to support this? --Judy Name: Judith A. Slein E-Mail: slein@wrc.xerox.com Phone: 8*222-5169 Fax: (716) 265-7133 MailStop: 128-29E
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