Re: charset Reality Check
Larry Masinter (masinter@parc.xerox.com)
Wed, 11 Jan 1995 01:32:46 PST
> BTW, Accept-parameter is not useful; charset is the only parameter
> shared by multiple media types. We could invent some new parameters,
> but that only makes the problem worse. Also, a quality attribute is
> only useful if we add it to the content-negotiation algorithm --
> something I would like to avoid (like the plague that it has become).
I think the image/* types might share information about color & size,
just as the text/* types would share information about character sets.