On Tue, 19 Feb 2008 13:19:53 -0500 "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > i dont say that this is a likely situation, but you are requiring that > > > all front-ends be modified to use sane 1.1 features. > > > > no, I'm not requiring this. why? an 1.0 fronted will just work. > > > > only an 1.1 frontend will have to use the mechanism to activate > > 1.1 features. > > fair enough, but why go thru all the trouble with extending existing > functions? a simple well-known option would be enough? a well known option would solve the problem, but an user can activate it by chance. and we don't want to hassle frontend authors with emails from angry users :-D with the proposed way, only a frontend can activate it and it would even work when we will make the switch to sane 2.0 . -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it