- From: Gabriele Fava <gabriele_fava@virgilio.it>
- Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 22:20:20 +0000
- To: www-html@w3.org
Risto Kankkunen wrote: > > Edward Lass <elass@goer.state.ny.us> wrote: > >>>> 1. It provides alternative representations only for remote resources >>> >> >> In theory, HTTP Content Negotiation and XML encoding information >> should already make sure that the user agent can handle everything >> that an XHTML page throws at it. > > > First of all, HTTP Content Negotiation works of course only when HTTP is > used. XHTML is not meant to be used only with HTTP. > > Secondly, HTTP Content Negotiation, as well as the draft's mechanism, > only works for external documents. Surely you don't mean that the author > should prepare a number of different versions of a large document, just > because it happens to contain a couple of phrases in a couple of > different languages? This is just the reason we need a mechanism like > "<alt>" that isn't tied into the external objects. > It would actually be better that all browser-dependant things were managed on server side, producing documents dynamically and in case then storing them for future requests; but at present I think a mechanism like alt is acceptable (by the way I think it's a good proposal).
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