Re: attributes, software architecture, CC/PP and accessibility

At 06:12 PM 2/1/00 -0500, Charles McCathieNevile wrote:
...
>Charles Munat has also worked on this approach a fair bit, but doing browser
>sniffing to determine whether to include thins like accesskeys (based on the
>idea that if the browser doesn't handle them they are a wase of
>bandwidth). 

One should note that serving one long document to all clients 
rather than several short alternatives can 
save badwidth as any form of content negotiation reduces caching,
even in a perfect HTTP spec and a perfect implementation.

Nir.

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Brown University 
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Received on Tuesday, 1 February 2000 19:04:44 UTC