We wanted to keep the whole thing down to one round trip. So, intead of the
server sending over availble formats, the client sends over the set of
formats it supports, with some preference weighting. The server makes the
decision. See some W3 design notes and
http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/Protocols/HTTP.html
for some waffle about it. It should all be in HTTP2.
I suggest a link type (attribute?) "MOVETHISTOO" which like "PRSESENTTHISTOO"
causes the linked document to be sent over whenevr the base document is moved.
Thisc, ombined with the "EMBED_THIS" attribute will give the effect of a
multipart document, while allowing the format conversion to act intdependently
on each part.
Tim
(PS: Anyone got a NeXTMail/MIME gateway?)