From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Meder Subject: Re: First web interface and service API draft Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:30:26 +0200 Message-ID: <1114176626.3233.44.camel@localhost> References: <1114166517.3233.4.camel@localhost> <2cfc4032050422043419b578cd@mail.gmail.com> <20050422121059.GB7173@pasky.ji.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jon Seymour , git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Fri Apr 22 15:27:23 2005 Return-path: Received: from vger.kernel.org ([12.107.209.244]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DOyAp-00051i-Rn for gcvg-git@gmane.org; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:26:24 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261434AbVDVNal (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:30:41 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261511AbVDVNal (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:30:41 -0400 Received: from shadow.prohost.de ([216.71.84.228]:7299 "EHLO shadow.prohost.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261434AbVDVNae (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Apr 2005 09:30:34 -0400 Received: from blue.office.onestepahead.de (h-62.96.100.62.host.de.colt.net [62.96.100.62] (may be forged)) by shadow.prohost.de (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id j3MDUSf19702; Fri, 22 Apr 2005 15:30:28 +0200 To: Petr Baudis In-Reply-To: <20050422121059.GB7173@pasky.ji.cz> X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:10 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote: > Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:34:45PM CEST, I got a letter > where Jon Seymour told me that... > > On 4/22/05, Christian Meder wrote: > > > > > > Comments ? Ideas ? Other feedback ? > > > > > > > I'd suggest serving XML rather than HTML and using client side XSLT to > > transform it into HTML. Client-side XSLT works well in IE 6 and all > > versions of Firefox, so there is no question that it is a mature > > technology. Provide a fall back via server transformed HTML if need > > be, but that is trivial to do once you have the client-side XSLT > > stylesheets. > > > > Serving XML is as easy as serving HTML and gives you a much more > > flexible outcome. > > Why "rather than"? Why not "in addition to"? > > You just append either .html or .xml, based on what you want. I agree with Petr. I think we should do both. Christian -- Christian Meder, email: chris@absolutegiganten.org The Way-Seeking Mind of a tenzo is actualized by rolling up your sleeves. (Eihei Dogen Zenji)