Re: [hybi] Adding clarification regarding future revisions (Was: Proposed way forward for WebSockets)

Pieter Hintjens <ph@imatix.com> Tue, 27 July 2010 12:02 UTC

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On Tue, Jul 27, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> wrote:

> Not having a version field is intentional. Versioning is an anti-pattern
> on the Web.

The... what?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-pattern is quite an interesting read
and relevant to this list in many ways but does not mention
versioning.

-Pieter