- From: Koen Holtman <koen@win.tue.nl>
- Date: Tue, 13 May 1997 21:39:40 +0200 (MET DST)
- To: www-html-editor@w3.org
- Cc: koen@win.tue.nl (Koen Holtman), mutz@hpl.hp.com, masinter@parc.xerox.com
Hi,
A comment on the LINK tag examples in
http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/WD-htmllink :
Things like
<LINK REL=stylesheet MEDIA=print HREF="corporate-print.css">
<LINK REL=stylesheet MEDIA=screen HREF="corporate-screen.css">
<LINK REL=stylesheet HREF="techreport.css">
and
<LINK REL=alternate LANG=fr HREF="mydoc-fr.html">
are really a form of content negotiation. The IETF http-wg has been
working on this issue for some time. In particular, we are close to
completing work on an extensible `variant description' format, with
semantics that allow a recipient to automatically judge the quality of
the different variants, and choose the best one. This format will
capture things like `MEDIA=print' and `LANG=fr'.
The variant description format and semantic model is currently
contained, along with a lot of HTTP-specific stuff, in the internet
draft draft-ietf-http-negotiation-01.txt. A HTML version on this
draft is on the homepage for HTTP content negotiation at
http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/ .
Seeing an increase in the interest in metadata, we are considering
whether we should take out the variant description stuff and put it in
a separate internet draft, so that it is more easily accessible to
other groups. Would you be interested in having such a thing?
Koen.
Received on Tuesday, 13 May 1997 15:39:47 UTC