Let’s get the AMAs kicked off on Lemmy, shall we.

Almost ten years ago now, I wrote RFC 7168, “Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol for Tea Efflux Appliances” which extends HTCPCP to handle tea brewing. Both Coffeepot Control Protocol and the tea-brewing extension are joke Internet Standards, and were released on Apr 1st (1998 and 2014). You may be familiar with HTTP error 418, “I’m a teapot”; this comes from the 1998 standard.

I’m giving a talk on the history of HTTP and HTCPCP at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress in Berlin later this month, and I need an FAQ section; AMA about the Internet and HTTP. Let’s try this out!

  • @[email protected]English
    2•1 year ago

    (adding up all the details of screen size, available fonts, language, os, etc, etc),

    not if you just simply turn off javascript.

    • @[email protected]English
      2•1 year ago

      I bet you can detect window size with css media queries and invisible “background-url” values for rendered items.

      I don’t know if “display: none” prevents loading of background-url targets though.