- From: Rowland Shaw <Rowland.Shaw@crystaldecisions.com>
- Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 01:49:15 -0700
- To: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
> David Woolley wrote: > The only sites I know of that do do server side negotiation of anything > but User Agent (using procedural, rather than declarative code, in that > case) are Google, some versions of Microsoft's Windows Update page and > some images on the W3C site. None of these can effectively use > q factors as the common browsers do not allow the users to configure > them, relying on positional fallback instead. I've noticed that the browsers do specify q factors, although not the magnitude, to pick three browsers at random: IE/6: en-gb,xx;q=0.9,fr-ca;q=0.7,en;q=0.6,de-at;q=0.4,ja;q=0.3,zh;q=0.1 NS/7.1: en-gb,xx;q=0.8,fr-ca;q=0.6,de;q=0.4,ja;q=0.2 Opera/7.11: en-gb;q=1.0,en;q=0.9,fr;q=0.8 I have noticed that the algorithm in Apache's mod_negotiation is different to what I'd expect though (I.e. if you ask for "en-gb" then "fr"; it will give you "fr" as typically only "en" is set up - it doesn't implicitly prefer "en" over "fr". Regardless, this is a little off topic for this list ;)
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