The type attribute and HTTP content negotiation.

[Dare Obasanjo <kpako@xxxxxxxxx>]

How does ATOM deal with the following issue originally
posted at http://www.dionidium.com/2003/12/atom-03 

"One particular change to Atom has left us perplexed.
Previously, Atom <link> tags contained only a
resource's address, with no attributes, like this:

<link>http://www.example.com/</link>

The new format requires the type attribute, which
lists the target document's media type, like this:

<link rel="alternate" type="text/html"
href="http://www.example.com/"/>

As regular readers know, we're serving our documents
as 'application/xhtml+xml' to browsers that support it
and 'text/html' to those that don't. There's no way to
tell from our Atom feed which media type your browser
will get. As a result, we're not sure which media type
to use in our feed's <link> tags (or if it even
matters). Let us know what you think.". 


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