- From: James M Snell <jasnell@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 09:14:58 -0700
- To: "activity-streams@googlegroups.com" <activity-streams@googlegroups.com>
- Cc: "public-socialweb@w3.org" <public-socialweb@w3.org>
On Thu, Sep 4, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Nick Jennings <nick@silverbucket.net> wrote: [snip] > > > Is it just me, or does the second example seem more concise, for both humans > and machines? > For me, the first is more concise, but it's a subjective view. We both may be suffering from a familiarity bias [1] [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familiarity_heuristic > In the first example, it seems the property names themselves indicate type > (or do you not need to know that, for example `uri` is HTML, or > `alternate.id` is a PDF, etc. ?). The property names indicate purpose, not type. The "mediaType" property provides a hint about the type. - James > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Activity Streams" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to activity-streams+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to activity-streams@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/activity-streams. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
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