Re: Microsoft IE -- it just gets better and better

>Could most of this be handled with media type registration? E.g., if
>Netscape were to accept: text/html and text/netscape-2.0-html, then
>Microsoft's browser could express its willingness to accept either or
>both. Is this a workable solution?

   I would like to see tighter granularity than that. It seems 
to me to be a problem that will need to be addressed on both the 
HTTP and HTML levels. 

Example: 

   The Accept string, or perhaps a new tag of some sort, would 
give a list of features that the client can render. (It seems 
inappropriate to define lots of new MIME-types for this.) 

   Then the content could be coded with conditionals that would 
give either low-level or feature-rich content on an object-by-object 
basis. 

   That way I wouldn't have to have entirely different source 
for all the different combinations of support implemented by 
all the different browsers. 

   I hear that Marc Hedlund and Brian Behlendorf are working 
on such a proposal. 


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