- From: ak.miller at auckland.ac.nz (Andrew Miller)
- Subject: [cellml-discussion] Review solicited forapplication/cellml-1.0+xmlandapplication/cellml-1.1+xml
- Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 11:10:18 +1200
Quoting Larry Masinter <LMM at acm.org>:
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> > So content negotiation in practice doesn't use accept: headers
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> > except in limited circumstances; for the most part, the sites send
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> > some kind of 'active content' or content that autoselects for itself
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> > what else to download; e.g., a HTML page which contains Javascript
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> > code to detect the client's capabilities and figure out which other
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> > URLs to load.
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>
>
> The embedding of scripts in CellML is not recommended, not defined by any
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> specifications, not (as far as I know) supported by any software packages,
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and
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> if vendors do want to support scripts, they should only use it express
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> functions which cannot be represented in MathML, not for content
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negotiation.
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> Therefore, scripts are not a viable option for CellML negotiation.
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>
If you have a HTML page that includes javascript that asks
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IF (browser supports CellML 1.1)
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THEN (load URL for cellML 1.1 content)
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ELSE IF (browser supports CellML 1.0)
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THEN (load URL for cellML 1.0 content)
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ELSE
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(insert content for 'can't display model')
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>
you don't put the Javascript inside CellML, you put it in the
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HTML code that decides whether or not to load CellML at all.
Given that CellML is supposed to be a language for the interchange of
mathematical models, I think that requiring an HTML page load just so you can
detect what CellML version is supported seems like unnecessary overhead, and
could cause problems for non-browser based tools. Javascript-based detection
approaches are useful in some contexts, and have been implemented before, for
web-based interfaces to CellML repository pages intended for interactive
users.
However, HTML is not useful for non-browser based/non-interactive systems(but
CellML, sometimes combined with HTTP, is useful in these situations).
Best regards,
Andrew Miller
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