Re: Attempt at HTML 2.1 (tables)
Peter Flynn (pflynn@curia.ucc.ie)
Fri, 23 Jun 95 12:14:45 EDT
Dave Kristol writes:
From: lilley <lilley@afs.mcc.ac.uk> said:
> Brian said [about making additions to HTML 2.0 independent rather than
> sequential]:
>
> > What we *could* do is give each incremental advance its own temporary
> > mime type, like text/x-html-tables, text/x-html-maths, etc.
>
> Hmm how many different permulations by HTML 2.8? What about
>
> text/x-html3; tables=no; maths=yes; figure=yes; style=yes; applets=no;
The idea of negotiation got discussed at the IETF meeting last March.
People considered it very messy, making it too hard to write Web pages.
For example, if there were eight variants of available features, you
might have to generate 2^8 different flavors of a page.
Content-type: text/html; implementation-bitmap 01001011 :-)
///Peter