On Wed, Nov 1, 2023 at 10:25 AM Aron Homberg <info@aron-homberg.de> wrote: > > Jonas Smedegaard <jonas@jones.dk> hat am 01.11.2023 16:56 WITA > geschrieben: > > Classic HTTP also didn't mandate GIF, and we can be thankful for that. > ... > If we try to find a comparison here, let's maybe compare protocols with > protocols, not file formats. I'll pick HTTP for simplicity. > Perhaps consider HTML as the example instead, HTTP+URL+HTML = web of documents, if there was a requirement that any HTML document must be abstracted out of a concrete syntax and implementers of websites MUST/SHOULD also accept and respond with a PDF, and an RTF document, and four other archaic low use document types, then perhaps that is a fairer comparison. Pivot back, and we get HTTP+URL+[ONE-THING] = web of data. What is the most widely utilized data bearing media type on the broad internet / web? JSON How do you make it more webby? add first class support for URLs How do you make it widely understandable in a shared manner? add GETable schema's. The rest falls out naturally from those requirements. > Again, this is not "against" any other serialization formats. I believe > that RDF/turtle etc. are important. But we already have the full-fledged > Solid to support it? Exactly.
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