"William A. Rowe, Jr." wrote: > > No. multiviews were created to allow the -client- to > select one of many variants based on their preferences > (gzip/no gzip, english or croatian, html or image.)
Not quite. As has been pointed out, 'negociation' is a bad term for what goes on -- which is the server trying to make an intelligent selection of a variant according to the parameters supplied by the client. The client does *no* selection, it just provides the parameters. And to all the people saying 'size should never have been a factor' I say 'BS'. If all of the variants are equally acceptable according to the client's parameters, it makes *perfect* sense to send the one that takes the least bandwidth. The problem, of course, is that the definition of 'equally acceptable' is moot. In this case, it is up to the Webmaster to assign quality ratings. > It shouldn't become a dumping ground for every flip-flop > the administrator chooses to make. Things change. The Web was only 'supposed' to interlink text documents. Back when we were a bunch of Webmasters only, we made changes that made our lives easier. Now that most of the people here are *not* Webmasters, what's our motivation for making changes? If it's anything to do with usability, then it behooves us to pay attention to ways to make things easier for users, and NOT to dictate to them how or how not to run their sites. -- #ken P-)} Ken Coar, Sanagendamgagwedweinini http://Golux.Com/coar/ Author, developer, opinionist http://Apache-Server.Com/ "All right everyone! Step away from the glowing hamburger!"
