Gervase Markham wrote:
> > I took the liberty to convert the HTML-file into plaintext, so we can
> > comment on this in the newsgroup.
>
> This would be _so_ much easier to keep track of if each recommendation was
> a separate bug... <sigh>
Noone prevents you from creating a "tracker" bug...
[snip]
> > Mozilla does this "Accept */*"-thingy. I think it's for
> > backward-compatibility.
>
> There needs to be a discussion on what would break if we removed this. I
> think it's accepted that we shouldn't do it, but we may have to.
It's silly - but this will result in a political debate (think about
plugin vendors who may like to get their application/x-foo-bar mimetype
pop-up in the "accept" header) - which mimetypes in - which out... the
whole "accept"-header is insane (sorry...)... but a better solution -
negotiation between server and client would at least require another
request/response roundtrip.
But this isn't bad as many people think. Due lack this capability in
HTTP now site authors use javascript to implement this (which is insane,
too... ;-(( ).... Ahhhhhh... ;-(
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Roland
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