(proposal) on metadata in documents

[smlckz at tilde.pink]

On Sat, 14 Nov 2020, Sean Conner wrote:
>  Okay.
>
> Created 2020-11-14T17:34:19-0500
> Modified 2020-11-14T17:50:03-0500
> Copyright 2020 by Sean Conner.
>
>  The timestamp was created with the following Unix command: "date +%FT%T%z"
> so that's pretty easy.

That's one way of doing that. Can we do better than that?

> And you know, if you move the lines to the top of
> the document, put the Modified: header first, a client would only have to
> read the first 34 bytes of the document to see if it's modified, and if it
> hasn't since the client last read it, the client can close the connection.
> Caching solved!
>
>  -spc (Add a Size header and you solve the size problem as well!)
>

We don't want or need anything like that. That is a breaking change to the spec so breaks all existing clients.

Let me change my wordings a little bit.

>> The metadata should be placed at the end of the document so that the
>> viewers can view the content first.
I should have said ''must'' instead of ''should''.
>> The clients may use the information, but may not hide the metadata.
''must'' not hide.

mmmh..

~smlckz