Re: The "polyglot" approach to fedsocweb

On 10 October 2012 01:10, Sandeep Shetty <sandeep.shetty@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 12:03 AM, Melvin Carvalho
> <melvincarvalho@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I'm thinking more and more this is a great idea.
> >
> > But why stop at identifiers?  Maybe we can polyglot the whole social web
> to
> > include data, posts and APIs!
>
> The polyglot approach is expensive to build and even more expensive to
> maintain. Does anyone have an example where this approach has worked
> in the past in some other context?
>

The polyglot/shim method is commonly in browsers to give the same
functionality to people across different vendors.


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Received on Wednesday, 10 October 2012 10:42:23 UTC