On 3/18/09 9:52 AM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:47 AM, Andrew Welch<andrew.j.we...@gmail.com> wrote:
Personally, I would recommend that we don't :) Version identifiers are
largely useless and experience shows that users use them wrong (e.g. a bunch
of SVG out there that's labelled as 1.1 is really 1.2, but people just
copy-paste the root element).
Agreed. This is the reason we did not specify a version or platform
attribute for widgets to date.
That's the worst reason ever to do anything! If users are having
problems because they don't understand what they are copying and
pasting, then address that
I think that is what we are doing. By not including a version
identifier, we remove the temptation to make backwards incompatible
changes protected by a version switch. Those are the type of changes
that are harmful since they require more complex authoring than much
of the web seems to use.
Agreed. Our current model follows Jonas' thinking. We think that our
approach is architecturally sound but I'm open to hearing further
suggestions.
Kind regards,
Marcos
