- From: Rick Jelliffe <ricko@allette.com.au>
- Date: Wed, 4 Jun 1997 03:13:21 +1000
- To: "Gavin Nicol" <gtn@eps.inso.com>
- Cc: <murata@apsdc.ksp.fujixerox.co.jp>, <w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org>
> From: Gavin Nicol <gtn@eps.inso.com> > Interestingly, there is increasing support for *correct* server > labelling. In the immediate future, (B) is a more likely scenario, > simply because admin folks either are 1) lazy, or 2) ignorant. This is > changing. Even today, you can configure a server to correctly label > things. I expect that as the metadata work proceeds, we'll see more > and better solutions. You haven't answered my point, which that a server needs some strategy to detect charset if it holds files of more than one charset. I don't think a server has the time to go through the whole XML detection process if it is sending out thousands of files: it will use some sub-XML heuristic. So the client-side detection of charset using the XML chain will always be more reliable. I don't think it is a problem of ignorance or laziness, but of minimising the processing done by servers. > The fact that current practise is less than ideal doesn't argue for > making the specification less than ideal... Yes it does, because we want it to work! Rick Jelliffe
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