HTTP guidelines (was: Re: Language information)

Daniel wrote:
"The more generic issue is whether or not we should
have a section on HTTP server guidelines, that would 
talk about not doing browser sniffing&discrimination, 
supporting language/content negociation, etc."

Yes. I think so. HTTP is important for content providing. 

I would go even to a more basic level.
Authors should be first told that they have set 
Content-Type headers correctly rather than write 
"Click with the right mouse button to save the file to disc" 
and only after they do that, we should tell them: also set 
the type attribute in your anchors.

As of now the guidelines note the latter pedantic guideline
but don't mention the more basic one.

Nir Dagan, Ph.D.
http://www.nirdagan.com
mailto:nir@nirdagan.com

"There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." 
-- A. Einstein

Received on Saturday, 12 December 1998 08:46:56 UTC