On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Steve Dodd wrote:
> Government departments' comms people are - or should be - in the business
> of disseminating information. I don't see any situations where text
> wouldn't be appropriate - though sometimes as well as rather than instead
> of some other representation. HTML is a *mark up* language, don't forget.
HTML started, CSS, JAVA, DHTML etc have come to be. Laptops don't come with
a DC generator to provide power. They require newer facilities. Sure it's
nice to support legacy things but isn't it more easy to make one defaulted
website that provides page showing how and where to upgrade their browswer
so they can use name based virtual hosts for that odd few people per year
rather than use a huge pool of IPs and cause you additional work for -every-
virtual host you serve?
> ... or expecting ramps to allow wheelchair access to buildings? I believe
> that's a legal requirement for many institutions over here, and it's the same
> principle. Even if you wish to disregard the needs of particular sorts of
> people, the whole issue of machine interpretable information comes up (think
> search engines, automated translation, ..) - why do you think there's so much
> hype about XML?
no, like expecting wheelchair ramps for rock climbing.
I know Apache is built well enough that you can use netscape version 1 on
name based virtual hosts to retrieve the desired content. Simply design the
URIs properly and when the Host: header is missing Apache will attempt to
locate the correct path and provide the desired content.
> Obviously if you're a business, it needs to make sense from a cost point of
> view. Unfortunately, I could count on the fingers of one nostril the number
> of businesses I know that do any useful research into the capabilities of
> their "audience"..
And some people insist on sucking up IPs like they're going out of style
because they aren't aware of a better way to do it. :) And this doesn't
match you but some people refuse to do it a better way because it's
different.
In my records of serving thousands upon thousands of domains, we switched to
fully name based hosting several years ago and we have the default page
setup that collects hits when something doesn't go right. With millions of
hits a day, we collected about one or two persons per year that had a
browser not capable of sending a Host: header and all of them were fully
capable of upgrading their browswer enough to handle it. None of them had
problems upgrading, even those with severe resource shortage.
BTW, Netscape 3.0 supports the host based naming. IE 3.0 and Netscape 2.0
are the versions where it started so all those 50 computers you through a
brick at should work just fine ;)
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