Re: Squaring the HTTP-range-14 circle

Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 6/17/11 3:11 PM, Leigh Dodds wrote:
>> I just had to go and check whether Amazon reviews and Facebook
>> comments actually do have their own pages. That's because I've never
>> seen them presented as anything other than objects within another
>> container, either in a web page or a mobile app. So I think you could
>> argue that when people are "linking" and marking things as useful,
>> they're doing that on a more general abstraction, i.e. the "Work" (to
>> borrow FRBR terminology) not the particular web page.
> 
> You have to apply context to your statement above. Is the context: WWW 
> as an Information space or Data Space? These contexts can co-exist, but 
> we need to allow users context-switch, unobtrusively. Thus,  they have 
> to co-exist, and that's why we have to leverage what the full URI 
> abstraction delivers. As stated earlier, it doesn't mean others will 
> follow or understand immediately, you need more than architecture for 
> that;  hence the need for a broad spectrum of solutions that do things 
> properly.
> 

and UX challenges, indeed if the ux was addressed first for the 
functionality, then whatever was implemented could be webized and 
standardized - could be a good way to force innovation in this area.

Received on Friday, 17 June 2011 20:32:20 UTC