Re: Address Bar URI

what is this IE6 that you talk about ?

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On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> On 10/18/11 1:49 PM, Jonathan Rees wrote:
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>> I'm not trying to be difficult, I just really don't get what you're
>> saying.
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>>> >  I believe the your quests was about a case for 303's. Which is
>>> > basically
>>> >  another way of seeking a case for slash terminated URIs re. Linked
>>> > Data
>>> >  deployment.
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>> Not exactly - I'm trying to build a case against hash URIs.
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> A case against hash URIs is that your deployment won't play well with IE 6.
> The problem with IE 6 is that it sends # over the wire. Other browsers
> don't. Thus, you (the publisher) has extra work on your hands should you
> want your Linked Data deployment to cater to IE 6 users. This is why DBpedia
> opted to use slash URIs since that meant a single set of re-write rules
> without any exception oriented heuristics for IE 6 user agents.
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