Re: 200 OK with Content-Location might work

On 11/7/10 10:21 PM, Tore Eriksson wrote:
> Hi Phil!
>
> Phil Archer wrote:
>> I know I sound like a fundamentalist in a discussion where we're trying
>> to find a practical, workable solution, but is a description of a toucan
>> a representation of a toucan? IMO, it's not. Sure, one can imagine an
>> HTTP response returning a very rich data stream that conveys the entire
>> experience of having a toucan on your desk - but the toucan ain't
>> actually there.
> Since this distinction is, and has been for many years, debatable, why
> not be pragmatic and leave this choice to the users themselves? If
> someone thinks that a web page consisting of a picture and a textual
> description is an adequate represenation of a Toucan, let them return
> one over HTTP (as long as they are aware that the web page itself is a
> different resource yada yada...). People expecting the Toucan to fly
> down the wire and appear at their desk might me disappointed but most
> users will probably be happy with the low-fidelity version.
>
> Tore Eriksson
>
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> Tore Eriksson [tore.eriksson at po.rd.taisho.co.jp]
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Tore,

Does the painting of a Toucan -- on some canvas -- infer that the 
Painter or Painting Viewers expect physical manifestation? Methinks, the 
Painter (an expressionist)  uses signs to project observed attributes of 
his/her subject (the Toucan), on a canvas,  in a manner that stimulates 
the minds of the Paintings Viewers. Thus, in the minds of the Viewers, 
the sensation could be such that flight does occur, it just happens in 
their mind.

BTW - Animation is old, so Tucan flight (in our minds) as a result of 
representation is something that's been happening long before the World 
Wide Web :-)

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