- From: Victor Engmark <victor.engmark@cern.ch>
- Date: Wed, 22 Mar 2006 11:46:24 +0100
- To: www-forms@w3.org
Sylvain Hellegouarch: > >What if browsers could negotiate support with the server using e.g. > >namespace URIs, where these would reference either a standard, part of > >it, or some pre-defined support level? Poof, SVG 1.1 Tiny 95% supported, > >CSS 3 10% supported, DOM level 2 80% supported, etc.. > > > This would not work because your percentage does not say what it covers. > A browser can support 10% of XForms but it does not say exactly what it > does support. It would work only if specification provided those levels. > > Say levels A, B, C and D defined by a given specification, UA could say > I support level A and we would know what that covers. Any classification scheme could be used, but I still think percentages are useful as a compromise between specifying each and every structure supported and pretending support for "level A" when it in fact supports only 80% of it. "Atomic" negotiation would be useful, but I believe it would have to be moved to a separate request/response to avoid information overload. -- Victor Engmark "Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditar" - "What is said in latin, sounds profound"
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