Re: Address Bar URI

On 10/19/11 10:14 AM, David Wood wrote:
> On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
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>> 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 :-)
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> ...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].
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> I know IE6 has been a thorn in our sides for years, but maybe it is time to let it go.

We don't believe is forcing issues on end-users by disrupting them via 
actions such as: implementing a Linked Data URI style for something like 
DBpedia that works modulo IE 6. Yes, the market share of IE is 
decreasing (thank heavens!) but we still have a live usecase that 
showcases why slash style of URIs are important and useful.

Kingsley


> Regards,
> Dave
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> [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.
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>>>>>>>   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,
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>>>> Kingsley Idehen
>>>> President&     CEO
>>>> OpenLink Software
>>>> Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>>>> Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
>>>> Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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>> Regards,
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>> Kingsley Idehen	
>> President&   CEO
>> OpenLink Software
>> Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
>> Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
>> Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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Regards,

Kingsley Idehen	
President&  CEO
OpenLink Software
Web: http://www.openlinksw.com
Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen
Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen