Re: proposal for a new html tag (fwd)
Gavin Nicol (gtn@ebt.com)
Thu, 23 Mar 95 13:14:07 EST
>It seems to me that we should specifically be trying to find a way to
>PREVENT sending the entire document over unless it is actually required
>by the user. This would be a more efficient use of Net bandwidth, client
..
>The question is, do we leave it to each Web site to come up with their
>own solution or do we find a standard effective way to accomplish this
>through HTML or HTTP? I vote for the latter. But how would this be
>best accomplished?
While it can be accomplished with the current specifications, it is
not elegant. Dynaweb does this by having a MAXBYTES configuration
parameter, which the publisher sets, and users can override (via URL
extensions). Perhaps we could have another Accept: parameter
Accept-Size: text/nnnn, graphics/nnnn
which would allow the server to make decisions based on user
preferences.