Re: First web interface and service API draft

From: Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org>
Date: Apr 22, 2005, 13:30 UTC
Message-ID: <1114176626.3233.44.camel@localhost>
In-Reply-To: <20050422121059.GB7173@pasky.ji.cz>

On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 14:10 +0200, Petr Baudis wrote:

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> Dear diary, on Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 01:34:45PM CEST, I got a letter
> where Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com> told me that...
> > On 4/22/05, Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> 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

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