On Thu, Mar 23, 2000 at 12:39:36PM -0800, Blu3Viper wrote:
> HTML started, CSS, JAVA, DHTML etc have come to be. Laptops don't come with
> a DC generator to provide power. They require newer facilities. Sure it's
> nice to support legacy things but isn't it more easy to make one defaulted
> website that provides page showing how and where to upgrade their browswer
> so they can use name based virtual hosts for that odd few people per year
> rather than use a huge pool of IPs and cause you additional work for -every-
> virtual host you serve?
Depends on what you're doing, and who for. Assuming your hosting for
businesses and home users, going named based only is probably reasonable.
For a government department that's not going to be hosting hundreds of
domains, the serverpath hack probably isn't too much trouble.
> > ... or expecting ramps to allow wheelchair access to buildings? I believe
> > that's a legal requirement for many institutions over here, and it's the
> > same principle.
[..]
> no, like expecting wheelchair ramps for rock climbing.
>
> I know Apache is built well enough that you can use netscape version 1 on
> name based virtual hosts to retrieve the desired content. [..]
I believe we'd switched to talking about graceful degradation of HTML at this
point. I'll concede the name based vhost point (mostly), but not this one ;-)
--
"I love the way Microsoft follows standards. In much the
same manner that fish follow migrating caribou."
Paul Tomblin
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