Re: Mime Type as metadata and why it's in my HTML document in the first place.

Two reasons for specifying media types in references to
style sheets, etc:

1) client side content negotiation - the client doesn't waste time by
requesting a version of a style sheet that it cannot handle  - that's
essential for the object fallback logic to work efficiently;

2) a protocol that does support meta data is used (e.g. a web site
on CD or accessed over ftp, SMB/CIFS etc.).

Received on Thursday, 12 February 2004 02:42:16 UTC