On 28/03/12 17:07, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote:
Wed 28 mars 2012 16:35, Dave Reynolds wrote:
This particular piece of the puzzle is not a technology or tools issue.
The web hosting in those cases is perfectly capable of publishing static
files or allowing content in the head of an html document. It is an
organizational and social issue.
I have no doubt this is often the case, but frankly, I'm not interested in
those cases. They will always lag a decade behind, and the rest of the
world would have to provide a compelling case for why they need to change
their deeply ingrained practices.
It's not a question of lag, there are perfectly valid reasons for such
constraints. It's a question of helping the people doing the publishing
to be able to do so, despite such constraints.
I think the focus should be on those, not on organisational practices that
are hard to change anyway.
I didn't mean to imply we should should try to change organizational
practices, no way. I meant that we need technical approaches which
enable publishers to succeed *despite* such constraints. Not having to
worry about 303s would be one useful step in that direction. It is not a
magic bullet (after all, in many such situations a hash-URI is a
workable alternative).
Dave
