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Re: [ ACTION-107] Updating version list identifier algorithm

From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:39:52 -0400
Message-ID: <e9dffd640709181039i3f4611eqee1c69dbd3a60fd9@mail.gmail.com>
To: "Ian Hickson" <ian@hixie.ch>
Cc: "Marcos Caceres" <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>, "Arve Bersvendsen" <arveb@opera.com>, "Arthur Barstow" <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-appformats@w3.org 

On 9/18/07, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:
> In any case, I would recommend not parsing versons at all. Just treat them
> as opaque strings, and assume that there is an upgrade if the version on
> the server doesn't match the version in the client.

Sounds good to me, but then you have to wonder why etags wouldn't suffice.

Mark.
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