On 9/18/07, Marcos Caceres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In any case, I would recommend not parsing versons at all. Just treat them > > as opaque strings, and assume that there is an upgrade if the version on > > the server doesn't match the version in the client. > > I could live with this, but it still makes me uncomfortable. What > happens if I accidentally override a new version with an old version > by mistake and don't realize it for a few days?
Don't do that! What happens if you mislabel 1.7 as 1.6? Stick with etags. They work, and the tooling support is already pretty good. No need to have a widget-specific mechanism when a generic one gets the job done. Mark. -- Mark Baker. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. http://www.markbaker.ca Coactus; Web-inspired integration strategies http://www.coactus.com
