Re: Language label

• From: Gary Adams - Sun Microsystems Labs BOS <gra@zeppo.East.Sun.COM>
• Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 08:28:37 -0500
• To: Drazen.Kacar@public.srce.hr, carrasco@innet.lu
• Cc: www-international@w3.org
• Message-Id: <199702281328.IAA00935@zeppo.East.Sun.COM>

# From: "M.T. Carrasco Benitez" <carrasco@innet.lu>
# Subject: Re: Language label
# 
# > > Spiders that are interested in docs in only one language need language
# > > information when a HEAD is done.  From this they will decise if doing a
# > > GET.
# > 
# > Hmmm... This way they won't collect all the links they could.
# 
# You are right.  But this allow designers of spiders to different
# strategies: the web will become larger and identifiying the most promising
# set of docs is important.
# 
# Tomas

Just saw a demo last week of an incremental conceptual indexing web 
browser plugin that does an asynchronous one level lookahead and
dynamically updates a taxonomy of categories in your immediate 
web neighborhood. For this application, the ability to use HEAD
and to properly interpret language and encoding headers is
crucial.
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/gra

Received on Friday, 28 February 1997 08:32:58 UTC