From: Jon Seymour <jon.seymour@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:34:45 GMT
Subject: Re: First web interface and service API draft
Message-ID: <2cfc4032050422043419b578cd@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1114166517.3233.4.camel@localhost>

On 4/22/05, Christian Meder <chris@absolutegiganten.org> wrote:
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> 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.

jon.