Re: [VCARDDAV] Dropping the VERSION property

Simon Perreault <simon.perreault@viagenie.ca> Mon, 01 November 2010 20:08 UTC

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Scratch that. You were referring to the VERSION *parameter*. Ignore this
thread please.

Simon

On 2010-11-01 16:05, Simon Perreault wrote:
>> 5.12. VERSION
>>
>> I don't think this is necessary, and in fact encourage future breaking as well as pushing the burden of handling multiple versions of a property onto implementations.
>>
>> Let's NOT add this, and instead work hard to:
>>
>>     * specify forward compatible parsing rules (i.e. ignore any params you don't recognize)
>>     * keep properties backward compatible in general, just adding detail params (like TZ and GEO) where it progressively enhances the property without breaking any existing semantics. 
> 
> This property has been there since at least 2.1. We're not "adding"
> anything. This is for backward compatibility rather than forward. We
> want people to move to XML.
> 
> Simon


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