New TAG Finding: Identifying Application State

I am pleased to announce the publication of a new TAG Finding "Identifying 
Application State" [1,2].

URIs were originally used primarily to identify documents on the Web, or 
with the use of fragment identifiers, portions of those documents. As Web 
content has evolved to include Javascript and similar applications that 
have extensive client-side logic, a need has arisen to use URIs to identify 
states of such applications, to provide for bookmarking and linking those 
states, etc. This finding sets out some of the challenges of using URIs to 
identify application states, and recommends some best practices. A more 
formal introduction to the Finding and its scope can be found in its 
abstract [3].

I would like to thank to Ashok Malhotra, who did much of the analysis and 
editing for this work, and also former TAG member T.V. Raman, who first 
brought this issue to the TAG's attention, and who wrote earlier drafts on 
which this finding is based.

Noah Mendelsohn
Chair: W3C Technical Architecture Group

[1] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/IdentifyingApplicationState
[2] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/IdentifyingApplicationState-20111201
[3] http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/doc/IdentifyingApplicationState#abstract

P.S. Tracker: this fulfills TAG ACTION-634

Received on Wednesday, 21 December 2011 23:26:33 UTC