- From: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 10:42:59 PST
- To: www-talk@w3.org
> On Mon, 29 Jan 1996, Mike Meyer wrote: > > Just specifying text/netscape-html probably works for 90% of the > I disagree, although I'd like to be able to agree. If Netscape had > implemented this when they first added extensions to HTML, this would be > workable. If NetScape had done that, we'd also have lots of real-world experience doing content negotiation. > This is a stopgap solution, but it doesn't fill the 'gap'. Old versions > of Netscape and other browsers would prevent this from working. I agree completely. However, this argument applies to ANY stopgap solution. It also hinders a "complete" solution - content providers have to either deal with older browsers (including the NetScape 0.9 I'm still getting hits from) or ignore them. Unless there is a complete solution that's close, some form of stopgap would be a real benefit to almost everyone. <mike
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