- From: Carine Bournez <carine@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Jun 2009 08:22:12 -0400
- To: Christine Perey <cperey@perey.com>
- Cc: 'Harry Halpin' <hhalpin@ibiblio.org>, public-xg-socialweb@w3.org
Hi Christine, all, On Wed, Jun 10, 2009 at 12:59:56PM +0200, Christine Perey wrote: > The purpose of the SWXG: > > > help provide guidance for Web services that want to add these > > types of social features: Show them how to add these features > > in a open, extensible, privacy-enhanced, accessible, > > internationalized and Web-based way. > > > > I applaud the use of the term "service" (as opposed to "the site"). > > But can "The Web" -based service be accessed and used WITHOUT a user being > required to run a browser? I simply seek to point out that a Web-based > service MAY also be accessible via a proprietary client application. > Proprietary applications can also use open and standard-compliant protocols > for specific features. Of course it includes services/sites accessed without a user using a browser (relevant reference is http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ ...) I'm not so sure about "service" vs "site", because "service" seem to exclude all kinds of P2P interactions. -- Carine Bournez -+- W3C Europe
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