From: Christian Meder Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 13:30:26 GMT Subject: Re: First web interface and service API draft 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: > 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)