- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 21:13:15 -0700
- To: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Cc: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com, Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, www-tag@w3.org
Ian Hickson wrote: > I've been pushing for Web browser vendors to fix this for approximately > eight years, roughly half the lifetime of HTTP so far. There is also a world of Web agents that aren't browsers. We're working through the nits of the first wave of Atom Publishing Protocol implementations, and the server is required to different things depending on whether you send Atom (application/atom+xml) or something else, and this is being done with the Content-Type and works well. I don't know, a few years back there were lots of people saying, in a tone similar to Hixie's, "Give up on that CSS crap, the Web is table-driven layouts and <font> tags that's how it's going to be, we've tried talking to the browser guys and they won't change." So I dunno, he might be right, but I don't think the time has come to give up on trying to get things to work the way they were designed to work. -Tim
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