[html4all] [html4all.org] Content-type negotiation as an alternative to ALT, LONGDESC and fallback

[Jason White]

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 10:03:29AM +0100, Philip TAYLOR wrote:
> Agreed (though I frequently wonder whether this separation
> of protocol from content is sub-optimal in this case)

Perhaps so, but the number of HTML documents residing on my local file system
at the moment suggests that it is a very real issue: software documentation,
books from various sources, etc., collectively amount to a substantial number
of megabytes.