- From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
- Date: Wed, 5 Apr 1995 23:44:56 -0800 (PST)
- To: Dave Thompson <davet@ncsa.uiuc.edu>
- Cc: www-talk@www10.w3.org
On Thu, 6 Apr 1995, Dave Thompson wrote: > o HTTP header Accept now lists only */* instead of a long string of MIME > types. Since there are parts of HTML 3.0 in the browser now (tables), could you *please* add Accept: text/html; level=3 as per the W3O directive? Even better would be something like Accept: text/html; level=3; q=1.0 Accept: text/html; q=0.5 That way those of us with content-negotiating servers (yes, www.hotwired.com is now a content-negotiating server - compare http://www.hotwired.com/ in arena and netscape, and look closely at the source. Arena can't parse the Content-type header with extra info quite right yet so the HTML 3 is tagged as text/html for now instead of text/html;level=3 but as soon as arena is fixed we'll change) can dish HTML 3 pages to HTML 3 clients and HTML 2 to HTML 2 clients. I know X Mosaic doesn't support all of HTML 3 yet, but the only way we're going to have a smooth transition is if the above happens even while HTML 3 is being developed. If I add a "please" would this help things? :) I'd rather not have the server negotiate based on User-Agent instead! Brian --=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-- brian@hotwired.com brian@hyperreal.com http://www.hotwired.com/Staff/brian/
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