Re: JSON Emergency Brake

On 26 Aug 2011, at 16:30, Kingsley Idehen wrote:
> On 8/26/11 6:35 AM, Richard Cyganiak wrote:
>> As I said, using the Link HTTP header brings no advantage over embedding the link in the representation. The processing of rel="@context" is specific to JSON-LD anyways, so why not include the link in the JSON-LD payload.
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> Why not in both places as we do ?

The *only* reason for adding this feature that I've seen expressed so far is:

“Why not?”

And the generic answer is: because adding a feature always has a cost, and every feature must carry its weight. Adding features just because we can is no way to design a system.

Best,
Richard


> Then you let the developers choose. We already do this in the pages we serve up.
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> Just lookup a DBpedia URI to see what I mean, assuming you haven't done so already. Note, I don't mean rel="@context", I am  referring to mirroring "Link:" response headers with <link/> entries in <head/> of HTML resources.
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