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

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 18:15:03 +0000 (UTC)
To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
Cc: Marcos Caceres <marcosscaceres@gmail.com>, Arve Bersvendsen <arveb@opera.com>, Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>, public-appformats@w3.org
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0709181814460.21662@hixie.dreamhostps.com> 

On Tue, 18 Sep 2007, Mark Baker wrote:
> 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.

Yeah, that's another option.

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