John Panzer wrote:
Eric Scheid wrote:
On 27/10/05 3:28 AM, "Luke Arno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The XHTML based introspection document could be served
with application/x-atom-introspection+xml. It *is* an XML
format.
What will browsers do with that? The touted benefit of XOXO over a custom
XML format is that the semantic listing can be displayed in a human readable
manner, but serving it with some wild MIME type kills that benefit.
I suppose we could insert an XML style sheet thing, the same way we make
Atom/RSS feeds human readable in browsers ... but we could also do that with
any XML, so where's the benefit to using xhtml/XOXO?
You can insert an XML style sheet, but then you must use the MIME type
text/html+xml rather than application/foobar+xml. If you use only
application/foobar+xml, browsers DO NOT attempt to display the content,
but instead prompt for a helper application, save to disk, or similar
behavior. Which is currently a major issue hindering the adoption of feeds.
As far as I can tell, IE displays (until told otherwise), while Firefox
prompts to save. The latter seems to be a bug to me (I think there's
even an open bug regarding this problem).
> ...
Best regards,
Julian
