Unrelated things.

[dsrtao]

1. Went to the dentist, spent 3.5 hours getting a tooth extracted and a bone graft put in. Am in agonizing pain, now muted by Vicodin.

2. Way back in Telnet days, clients and servers knew how to autonegotiate their capabilities. Will you echo characters back? No, you have to do that. Can you change your window size? Sure. Can you move your cursor anywhere on screen? No, only forward, backward, down and return to start. That sort of thing.

Why don't modern browsers advertise their capabilities explicitly? Instead of guessing, we could have:

HTTP 1.x GET http://smart.server.example.com/info/
CAPABLE=EcmaScript 1.3, JRE 1.6, Flash 7, CSS 1.0, Pipeline 32

instead of the silly "I'm a Mozilla 5.0 browser! Guess whether I'm really Gecko-based or just foolin'!" that we seem to have now.

Comments

[dsrtao]

Vicodin doesn't last very long.

[jtdiii.livejournal.com]

OK, consider how IE would advertise itself... If it is telling the truth.

[metahacker.livejournal.com]

Early web latency and fear of bandwidth use lead to a 'one-off' mentality, rather than the handshaking of telnet. One request, one page returned, and cached no less.

Take the next dose *before* you even start to hurt. It takes a while to kick in, like an hour. Hope it heals fast.

[abbergails.livejournal.com]

Ditto'ing the Vicodin advice. When I had my gallbladder out it would take 30-45 minutes to kick in, relieve pain nicely for about 2 hours and then taper off for the next hour. I was silly and would wait, hoping each time that I really didn't need another dose. Yeahno.

[pooh-mama.livejournal.com]

Poor Dan... I'm so sorry you had to go through the tooth pain. I had my 4 wisdom teeth pulled a few months after Chava was born. The vicodin was definitely better than nothing. I just remember feeling a little sleepy and loving everyone around me a little more than usual. :) Hope you had fun with Abby this wknd.

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