Category Archives: Standards

Posts relating to web standards.

From the Top: MIME and Content Negotiation

Content negotiation at its simplest is a conversation between your web server and a user agent (browser, search engine bot etc) to determine the preferred format or version of a resource to serve. In this, the second in my article series “From the Top” I will introduce you to the web (head) waiter that knows how to correctly serve your web page to a user agent. Continue reading

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