- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 09:17:44 -0400
- To: R J Partington <rjp@heffer.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <199508100231.DAA00726@heffer.demon.co.uk>, R J Partington writes: >I've got a document which has a table in it. (This is just on my >local machine at the moment). > >Can I, and if so - how, deliver different versions of the document >to different browsers so that netscape/arena etc. get a version >with a <table> in, and others get a <pre>-formatted asciified >version of the table? Yes, you can. The protocol for doing this is defined: HTTP Working Group T. Berners-Lee, MIT/W3C INTERNET-DRAFT R. Fielding, UC Irvine <draft-ietf-http-v10-spec-01.ps> H. Nielsen, MIT/W3C Expires February 3, 1996 August 3, 1995 http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP1.0/draft-ietf-http-spec.html#Negotiation The strategy for graceful deployment of tables is given in: HTML: Table Deployment Strategy $Id: table-deployment.html,v 1.2 1995/03/13 23:01:39 connolly Exp $ http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/MarkUp/table-deployment.html As to how, see: Suffix Definitions for CERN httpd Ari Luotonen, CERN, 1994 http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Config/Suffixes.html#AddType Apache server Content arbitration: MultiViews and *.var files http://www.apache.org/docs/content-negotiation.html Mon Aug 7 07:22:30 1995 Would somebody do the world a favor and write this up as a WWW FAQ entry and send it to Thomas Boutell? Daniel W. Connolly "We believe in the interconnectedness of all things" Research Scientist, MIT/W3C PGP: EDF8 A8E4 F3BB 0F3C FD1B 7BE0 716C FF21 <connolly@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/hypertext/WWW/People/Connolly
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