On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 12:45:56PM +0100, Oskar Sandberg wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 27, 2001 at 10:14:24PM -0800, Scott G. Miller wrote:
> > > I'm just trying to be consistent on everything so that people have the
> > > easiest job possible implementing things. If now's the time to be
> > > changing things, I'm all for moving to completely decimal-based metadata
> > > specs. (why did we move to hex in the first place? because it looks
> > > cool?)
> > Ease of implementation should always be second to ease of use.
>
> For God's sake, not for protocols. All those people who are capable of
> doing key exchange and encryption in their heads, and so are planning to
> use FNP by hand please stand up!
But in this case, this is not a protocol, this is a URI format. Users
(such as myself) in addition to freesite authors benefit from being able
to alter a calendar date rather than a hex-encoded unixtime.
Scott
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