[whatwg] header for JSON-LD ???

Jeffrey Yasskin jyasskin at chromium.org
Sat Jul 22 22:12:41 PDT 2017


2¢: This list tends to disapprove of JSON-LD, so you should probably first
run your proposal by a group that likes JSON-LD. Maybe
public-rdf-comments at w3.org referenced from https://www.w3.org/TR/json-ld/?
Or an issue against https://github.com/json-ld/json-ld.org?

Jeffrey

On Fri, Jul 21, 2017 at 2:21 PM, Michael A. Peters <mpeters at domblogger.net>
wrote:

> I am (finally) starting to implement JSON-LD on a site, it generates a lot
> of data that is useless to the non-bot typical user.
>
> I'd prefer to only stick it in the head when the client is a crawler that
> wants it.
>
> Wouldn't it be prudent if agents that want JSON-LD can send a standardized
> header as part of their request so web apps can optionally choose to only
> send the JSON-LD data to clients that want it? Seems it would be kinder to
> mobile users on limited bandwidth if they didn't have to download a bunch
> of JSON that is meaningless to them.
>
> Is this the right group to suggest that?
>


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