- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 09:58:20 -0400
- To: "David Orchard" <dorchard@bea.com>
- Cc: "Bryan Rasmussen" <BRS@itst.dk>, www-tag@w3.org
David, On 10/3/06, David Orchard <dorchard@bea.com> wrote: > > Bryan, > > I think you've hit much of the nail on the head. Our rough thinking is > that web browers have a "liberal" styles of versioning, and have all the > complexity that you've talked about. Some people think that is good and > has helped web adoption, others think it is bad and has hurt web > adoption. XML is to an extent a reaction to that. I think the complexity comes from the extensions themselves, not from handling them liberally. In my experience developing both a Web browser and a non-browser based international data distribution network, liberal versioning is far easier to codify (because it takes less code) and also yields more evolvable code. Mark.
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