From: Petr Baudis Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 12:10:59 GMT Subject: Re: First web interface and service API draft 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 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. -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis Stuff: http://pasky.or.cz/ C++: an octopus made by nailing extra legs onto a dog. -- Steve Taylor