hello mo.
thanks for the email. On 2011-05-17 11:50 , Mo McRoberts wrote:
I've only been half-following this debate, but it strikes me that there's perhaps a certain degree of crossover with the HTTP “Alternates” header: http://gewis.win.tue.nl/~koen/conneg/draft-ietf-http-alternates-00.html
not really. this addresses the question of resources being available in alternate media types. the main problem in the suggestion i was making is that everything is always packaged in atom XML, so the media type from an HTTP point of view is always atom. think of it as the equivalent of how to communicate that you have a web page with flash animations, and one with animated GIFs. both are using the HTML media type, but something inside of them is different, and afaik, there is no generic web/HTTP way how to communicate this (i.e., being able to say: over there, there's an equivalent web page, but it has flash in it).
cheers, dret.
