Re: files or database for solid pods [Was: Towards Solid Lite]

On 10/31/23 5:45 PM, Nicolas Chauvat wrote:
> Le Tue, Oct 31, 2023 at 04:40:31PM -0400, Kingsley Idehen a écrit :
>
>> Solid is supposed to be about choice on both the client and sever sides with
>> regards to read-write operations. It will always lose its way when
>> specificity (on either side) creeps in i.e., whenever the abstraction
>> becomes leaky.
> +1
>
> When I do an HTTP GET on some apache server configured to serve a file
> system, I get HTML.
>
> When I do an HTTP GET on some search engine, I get HTML built on the
> fly to show the results from a database query.
>
> My browser wants HTML and will not care if that HTML existed as a file
> before my GET or was built right after my GET arrived at the server.
>
> Do you think we could have the same with the abstractions of Solid ?
>

That's what I've always understood Solid to be delivering, if its specs 
stays true to the original vision. I haven't looked at the specs 
recently, but I certainly know what the original vision was all about :)

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