- From: <noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 21:59:39 -0400
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-tag@w3.org
I hope it's clear that my note wasn't questionning anyone's motives or level of effort, least of all yours. I also agree that to the extent there's going to be common practice, then it's worth documenting that common practice to get as much stable interoperation as possible. That wasn't the point of this finding, but it sounds like that's what you're trying to do in HTML5. I also think that the Web will be much better off if starting now, those who deploy resource, and particularly those who deploy new media types, new sorts of client side references (e.g. the next thing that plays the role of <img>) try to learn from the TAG finding and do things "right". At least then, we'll be able to gradually start getting the benefits of server-side typing. The drawback of appearing to deprecate Content-Type is that it misses the opportunity to send a strong admonition that, at least starting here, we're going to try and do things right. I still like the finding, and I agree with Roy that even as things stand the TAG is doing it's job by setting out the Web architecture as at should be deployed. I don't think that this is a case where the community has found a better way, if only the TAG would admit it. Thanks for your nice and carefully reasoned note. Noah -------------------------------------- Noah Mendelsohn IBM Corporation One Rogers Street Cambridge, MA 02142 1-617-693-4036 --------------------------------------
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