- From: Martynas Jusevičius <martynas@graphity.org>
- Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:28:07 +0200
- To: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Cc: public-hydra@w3.org, public-declarative-apps@w3.org
Kingsley, you put it beautifully :) Exactly what I mean. On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:16 AM, Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: > On 6/23/14 4:56 PM, Markus Lanthaler wrote: >> >> It's certainly a fuzzy line but for me a Web specification is something >> that is exposed on the Web and used by different independent systems without >> central coordination. > > > Not really. It's an application that leverages HTTP for interaction. > "Exposure on the Web" is inaccurate. Taking that position leads people to > assume that whenever you build so called "Web apps" they have to be publicly > available over the World Wide Web. In fact, this is all about webby data and > webby interactions. > > >> This is not really the case here AFAICT. The description will be used by >> the processor (the server) internally. It uses it to know how to server the >> data it has. The client, AFAICT, doesn't see this description (and doesn't >> need to see it). > > > A client and server can have their interactions driven by hypermedia based > content, accessible from HTTP locations. The nature of the interactions can > be progressively understood as interactions and data state transitions > evolve. > > Ultimately, a client needs to understand what's contained in a payload. > Likewise, so does a server. RDF enables machines (be them client, servers, > or peers) to understand the hypermedia payloads that are encountered during > message exchanges. No different to how we actually work in the real-world. > > > -- > > Regards, > > Kingsley Idehen > Founder & CEO > OpenLink Software > Company Web: http://www.openlinksw.com > Personal Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen > Twitter Profile: https://twitter.com/kidehen > Google+ Profile: https://plus.google.com/+KingsleyIdehen/about > LinkedIn Profile: http://www.linkedin.com/in/kidehen > > > > >
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