Re: #rdfms-difference-between-ID-and-about

On Wednesday, June 20, 2001, at 05:53  PM, pat hayes wrote:

>> -- have you ever opened up an HTML page in your browser without a URL?
>
> Actually yes, I do it all the time with pages I have saved as 
> files and given private file names to.

Exactly, and those file names created a URL for the document!

> HTML is only hypertext, after all, nothing magical.

Perhaps not, but URIs are quite neat.

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Received on Wednesday, 20 June 2001 23:30:08 UTC