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Bug 8095 - link's "type" attribute could be used to advertise available representations if it were linked to the Accept: header per Mike Kelly's thread(s)
Summary: link's "type" attribute could be used to advertise available representations ...
Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 8096
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: LC
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
Whiteboard:
Keywords: NE
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
Reported: 2009-10-27 22:54 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2010-10-22 10:28 UTC (History)
6 users (show)

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Description contributor 2009-10-27 22:54:58 UTC 
Section: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#default-media

Comment:
link's "type" attribute could be used to advertise available representations if it were linked to the Accept: header per Mike Kelly's thread(s)

Posted from: 84.75.177.17
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-12-15 23:41:53 UTC 
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: What problem does this solve?
Comment 2 Sam Johnston 2009-12-15 23:52:36 UTC 
Per my comment on #8096 (which is related), this allows resources to have multiple representations. That is, it avoids having to append prefixes to differentiate between representations (e.g. .txt, .pdf, .doc) by using the standard HTTP content negotiation mechanism (Accept: headers) and MIME types rather than by constructing a separate URL for each.


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 8096 ***