Re: First web interface and service API draft

From: Petr Baudis <pasky@ucw.cz>
Date: Apr 22, 2005, 12:10 UTC
Message-ID: <20050422121059.GB7173@pasky.ji.cz>
In-Reply-To: <2cfc4032050422043419b578cd@mail.gmail.com>

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...

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> 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.

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