- From: Allan Beaufour <beaufour@gmail.com>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:23:56 +0100
- To: www-forms@w3.org
On 3/22/06, Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@cern.ch> wrote: > Isn't it time for user agents to start reporting more fine grained which > standards they support? The HTTP Accept header doesn't provide enough > information to know whether a document will be understood at all, and > can lead to quite a few hacks, specially on sites using cutting edge > technology, such as SVG or AJAX. Certainly, and I know that the CDF WG is looking at that. I do not know what the status is though. Anybody knows? > I don't really know if this is possible, but maybe this kind of Accept > header could be separated into a special HTTP reply. This would contain > the URIs of the potential contents, and the user agent would send a new > HTTP GET request with the modified Accept header, reporting the support > levels. Special request/reply functions will probably not happen right away, if ever. -- ... Allan
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