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Re: Format Negociation in Practice
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Henrik Frystyk Nielsen)
Wed Nov 2 09:55:39 1994
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 1994 15:53:45 +0100
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> This is one of the reasons for a clean versioning scheme, e.g.
>
> Accept: text/html; version=3.0
Two numbers would be an advantage instead of one - in this way you can
specify a max and a min version supported. With the evolution of the
Web, it might be very difficult to preserve backwards compatibility
forever.
> (Less talk and more work :)
Short enough? ;-)
-- cheers --
Henrik Frystyk
frystyk@W3.org
+ 41 22 767 8265
World-Wide Web Project,
CERN, CH-1211 Geneva 23,
Switzerland
