Re: Address Bar URI

On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote:

> On 10/19/11 8:49 AM, Paul Wilton wrote:
>> what is this IE6 that you talk about ?
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> Internet Explorer 6. The browser that still dominates market share across WWW end-users :-)


...with less than 5% market share as of last March [1].  Also, most of those reported instances of IE6 usage may be due to the AVG Linkscanner bot, which uses an IE6 ID string [2].

I know IE6 has been a thorn in our sides for years, but maybe it is time to let it go.

Regards,
Dave

[1] http://www.sitepoint.com/ie6-usage-below-5-percent-browser-trends/
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#Overestimation


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> 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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>>> OpenLink Software
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> Kingsley Idehen	
> President&  CEO
> OpenLink Software
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Received on Wednesday, 19 October 2011 14:15:12 UTC