- From: M.T. Carrasco Benitez <carrasco@innet.lu>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 1997 09:23:10 +0100 (MET)
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- cc: Bernard Chester <BernardC@saros.com>, "'WInter'" <www-international@w3.org>
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Larry Masinter wrote: > In general, design things so the sender is conservative about > what it sends and the recipient is liberal about what it accepts. > > A server should send a content-language if it has one. > > A recipient should accept both a content-language label and > also a <HTML LANG=xx> attribute and also other embedded > LANG attributes. > > This is pretty simple. The senders are simple because > they do what they can and not the impossible. The recipients > are a little more complex, but actually, not any more complex > than they have to be now. Sometimes you just have to guess > the language anyway. Very well resumed and I agreed. > No real robot or spider will be able to do useful work just assuming > that every document they care about has a content-language. Disagree. - Internet.- As the web space get larger, some specialized spider would be ready to disregards docs of a certain type, even if this represents loosing some docs. - Intranets.- Most docs would conforms to strict rules. Tomas
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