- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 08 Nov 1995 22:05:13 -0500
- To: Brian Behlendorf <brian@organic.com>
- Cc: Shel Kaphan <sjk@amazon.com>, www-talk@w3.org
In message <Pine.SGI.3.91.951108142712.17261P-100000@fully.organic.com>, Brian Behlendorf writes: >On Wed, 8 Nov 1995, Shel Kaphan wrote: >> And by the way, I wasn't talking about course-grained, dynamic >> content-negotiation per se, but about the fine grained and constant >> properties of browsers such as "can-center-text", >> "tables-can-contain-forms", etc. > >Crucial design goal decision time, folks: > >Do we want to support, through mechanisms in HTTP, the ability to express >a bitmap of capabilities within specific content types (like HTML), or >not? I don't think so. But I'm not sure. I'd sure like to be sure. If I had (1) time to hammer out a comprehensive spec for content negotiation, or (2) more time to hack on a browser to work out these implementation issues, I'd feel more comfortable commenting. I expect to free up some time (somebody's time, anyway) for this in the near future (probably after Xmas) but until then, I'm afraid I can't help much. We've discussed the issues ad-nauseum, and my only conclusion is that it's not so simple as it once looked. I encourage folks to experiment and report their results. (As an example, take a look at the HTTP-WG discussions on multiple-transactions-per-connection in HTTP. Plenty of performance numbers and such. Good stuff.) Dan
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