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by Kimitri 268 days ago
The concept is called content negotiation. We used to do this when we wanted to serve our content as XHTML to clients preferring that over HTML. It's nice to see it return as I always thought it was quite cool.
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Agreed! I love that such a tried and true web standard is making a comeback because of AI.
Content negotiation is also good for choosing human languages, unfortunately the browser interfaces for it are terrible.