Re: Address Bar URI

On 10/19/11 8:49 AM, Paul Wilton wrote:
> what is this IE6 that you talk about ?
>
> :)

Internet Explorer 6. The browser that still dominates market share 
across WWW end-users :-)


Kingsley
> On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Kingsley Idehen<kidehen@openlinksw.com>  wrote:
>> On 10/18/11 1:49 PM, Jonathan Rees wrote:
>>> I'm not trying to be difficult, I just really don't get what you're
>>> saying.
>>>
>>>>>   I believe the your quests was about a case for 303's. Which is
>>>>> basically
>>>>>   another way of seeking a case for slash terminated URIs re. Linked
>>>>> Data
>>>>>   deployment.
>>> Not exactly - I'm trying to build a case against hash URIs.
>> A case against hash URIs is that your deployment won't play well with IE 6.
>> The problem with IE 6 is that it sends # over the wire. Other browsers
>> don't. Thus, you (the publisher) has extra work on your hands should you
>> want your Linked Data deployment to cater to IE 6 users. This is why DBpedia
>> opted to use slash URIs since that meant a single set of re-write rules
>> without any exception oriented heuristics for IE 6 user agents.
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>> Regards,
>>
>> Kingsley Idehen
>> President&    CEO
>> OpenLink Software
>> Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen 
President&  CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
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Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 14:02:41 UTC