- From: David Woolley <david@djwhome.demon.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2004 06:51:42 +0100 (BST)
- To: www-html@w3.org
> It would actually be better that all browser-dependant things were > managed on server side, producing documents dynamically and in case then It would be better if pages simply provided information and left the user agent to deal with rendering. Some examples of where servers side customisation fail are: - minority browsers - the browser capabilities known to the server are often out of date or too conservative, and authors often reject out right rather than try to support them; - downloading for offline processing - you might download with wget (or even Internet Explorer) then use a completely different browser to view; - non-browser tools - the advantage of structural markup is that you can add value by working with the content rather than the rendering - the classic case is search engines - and their owners don't take kindly to pages that are content negotiated just for them.
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