[PROTOCOL][General][Misc] Re: Protocol Changes (was: Zoom /Scaling in VNC)

[Jens Wagner]

Jonathan Morton wrote:

> >
> >There appears to be a fundamental tradeoff between simplicity and
> >flexibility.  Adding real flexibility to the protocol for future
> >features and settings will almost certainly cost something in the
> >way of complexity of negotiations.  My vote is to sacrifice the
> >simplicity at this juncture to obtain the flexibility and robustness
> >afforded by dynamic feature negotiation.
> >
>
> Might I make a further suggestion, namely that servers should, where
> possible, retain compatibility with the current v3.3 protocol so that our
> existing user-base can perform a smooth upgrade...  this is less of an
> issue for clients but would be desirable at that end as well.

My proposal retains compatibel with v3.3 and lacks no flexibility.

- Jens



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