Re: Comments on format-05

[Graham <dtcd@xxxxxxx>]

On 31 Jan 2005, at 7:02 pm, Mark Nottingham wrote:

> If the concern about multiple content is solely that it will result in 
> more bandwidth use, I think it's misplaced; people who are concerned 
> about bandwidth won't publish multiple representations inline; forcing 
> them not to by legislation is misguided.

It's the implementation costs at the client. If you allow multiple 
content of the same mime-type, even minimal software has to have a 
significantly more complicated interface to allow users to choose which 
one to show, and a significantly more complex database to make it 
happen.

Big fat -1.

Graham

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