Re: Request that the WG reconsider section 3.4: Content Negotiation

On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 7:50 PM, Bjoern Hoehrmann <derhoermi@gmx.net> wrote:
> it just so happens that for sub-resources a
> substantial part of the process often happens on a level above HTTP.

Right. Therefore, it would be appropriate to describe HTTP-level
content negotiation as a legacy thing.

See http://wiki.whatwg.org/wiki/Why_not_conneg and in particular the
codec thought experiment in the end.

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Henri Sivonen
hsivonen@hsivonen.fi
http://hsivonen.fi/

Received on Friday, 8 November 2013 09:58:42 UTC