- From: Noah Mendelsohn <nrm@arcanedomain.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Aug 2016 12:23:58 -0400
- To: "www-tag@w3.org" <www-tag@w3.org>
See [1]. I thought this might be of some interest to the TAG. Seems to me that this is OK insofar as the addin is a modification to a user agent, and is presumably activated only with the user's consent. Nonethess, this seems to embody a slightly skewed view of Web protocols: if I as a URI authority serve a new or updated page, your browser will do what I intend and show the user that new content. If I delete a page, the browser will not honor that deletion, but will show content anyway. This seems to me just a bit of a slippery slope. A 404 is just as meaningful in Web protocols (no such page) as a 200 IMO. I'm not proposing that the TAG do anything about this or devote significant time to it right now, just pointing it out in case it's of interest. Thank you. Noah [1] http://gadgets.ndtv.com/apps/news/firefox-will-try-to-show-you-saved-archive-of-a-page-instead-of-404-error-869482
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