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Greg Wilkins <gregw@webtide.com> Wed, 10 March 2010 08:04 UTC

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All,

Is there some plan to transition from the browsers that support
the current draft to the browsers that support the document that
is produced as a result of this process?

Is it a requirement that we consider backwards compatibility to
the solutions already being shipped?

Obviously there will have to be some breakage, but currently
without any version information that could be hard to handle.
Even if we use Sec headers to infer versions, we need to define
behaviour for miss-matched versions.


regards

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