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- From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>
- To: XML Developers List <xml-dev@xml.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:51:56 -0700
> Er... I just fetched that with IE5.5, which *does* accept XML,
> and I got the HTML version. Hmm, have to look at the IE
> accept headers. I've always had crappy luck with content
> negotiation, but lots of smart people think it's important,
> so I guess the jury's out.
FWIW. I'm not in favor of content negotiation, because it's
a) unreliable (may be fixed)
b) non-deterministic
For me, (b) is important because, for example, if you edit a
link into some content (or into an image for that matter),
the link becomes unrelaible in the face of content negotiation.
I'd prefer to use extensions for this particular application.
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