- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ihmc.us>
- Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 10:57:45 -0500
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: martin.hepp@ebusiness-unibw.org, Danny Ayers <danny.ayers@gmail.com>, bill.roberts@planet.nl, public-lod@w3.org, semantic-web at W3C <semantic-web@w3c.org>
On Jun 28, 2009, at 6:39 PM, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > > On 2009-06 -25, at 13:29, Pat Hayes wrote: > >> >> On Jun 25, 2009, at 11:44 AM, Martin Hepp (UniBW) wrote: >> >>> Hi all: >>> >>> After about two months of helping people generate RDF/XML metadata >>> for their businesses using the GoodRelations annotator [1], >>> I have quite some evidence that the current best practices of >>> using .htaccess are a MAJOR bottleneck for the adoption of >>> Semantic Web technology. >> >> I agree, and raised this issue with the W3C TAG some time ago. It >> was apparently not taken seriously. The general consensus seemed to >> be that any normal adult should be competent to manipulate an >> Apache server. > > (Was yours a deliberate sarcastic misrepresentation of the TAG's > consensus, or a genuine misunderstanding? A genuine misunderstanding, based on the personal feedback I got, I admit, rather than a careful perusal of the TAG published decisions, my bad. > ) The TAG has expressed that the fact that Apache needs root > intervention when it doesn't have the right mime type set up is a > serious bug. Well, Im glad to hear that, and apologize for not knowing it. But as I said in my reply to Tom, that doesn't help me actually use the SWeb from out here in the one-way side roads off the information superhighway. > >> My own company, however, refuses to allow its employees to have >> access to .htaccess files, and I am therefore quite unable to >> conform to the current best practice from my own work situation. I >> believe that this situation is not uncommon. > > So you mean you can't set up content negotiation and redirection. Right. As I discovered when I was trying to follow the http-range-14 decision and experiment with my notorious 'PatHayes' self-referential page, in order to bring it into line with the recommendations. Talk about eating dog food... > But you can use foo#bar URIs like I do. True. > > Will the company allow a mime.types file to include application/rdf > +xml? No problem there, AFAIK. Pat > > Tim > > > ------------------------------------------------------------ IHMC (850)434 8903 or (650)494 3973 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola (850)202 4440 fax FL 32502 (850)291 0667 mobile phayesAT-SIGNihmc.us http://www.ihmc.us/users/phayes
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