Re:A privacy war is raging inside the W3C
by cesarb on Tuesday July 13, 2021 @06:42PM
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> It has no cookies, user-agent, referer, etc and the protocol is not extensible enough that such features could be easily added.
For now.
The original HTTP (now retroactively called HTTP/0.9) also had none of these, and also wasn't extensible enough; it had no headers at all, just the verb (GET) and the path. Yet somehow, it was later extended to include all of these.
> very limited formatting, no scripts or even inline images!
The original HTML was also like that, even inline images came later.
For now.
The original HTTP (now retroactively called HTTP/0.9) also had none of these, and also wasn't extensible enough; it had no headers at all, just the verb (GET) and the path. Yet somehow, it was later extended to include all of these.
> very limited formatting, no scripts or even inline images!
The original HTML was also like that, even inline images came later.