Re: [Lynx-dev] http://svn.boost.org/svn/boost/trunk/

[Krzysztof Żelechowski]

Użytkownik Thomas Dickey napisał:
> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 07:10:27PM +0100, Krzysztof Żelechowski wrote:
> > I think javascript is a different responsibility from stylesheets, since
> > the publisher must cater to browsers that do not play javascript, and
> > HTML contains specific provisions for that case.  Or do you consider it
> > to be the publisher’s fault to give me text/xml?  But how do you decide
> > whether to serve XML or HTML, if the latter possibility exists on
> > server?  Whitelisting?  Blacklisting?  Accept header?  But does Lynx
> > communicate that it does not accept text/xml?
> As I recall it, the choice is made on the server without providing for
> clients which do not implement the feature.  Lynx is only displaying
> HTML as-is.
Do you refer to any server, or WebSVN in particular?  Because it 
obviously need not be so, and, given the proper request headers are 
provided, it would be a bug in the server script.
My question, how you prescribe serving XML to Lynx should be implemented 
on server, remains open.
> (some page authors express similar opinions about clients that don't implement
> flash ;-)
XML, XML stylesheets and the method of serving them to the client is a 
WWW standard while flash is only a "de-facto" proprietary standard, with 
a single implementation available for some 32-bit architectures only, so 
the difference is obvious.

Chris