- From: Paul Denning <pauld@mitre.org>
- Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 12:20:59 -0400
- To: public-web-http-desc@w3.org
http://esw.w3.org/topic/WebDescriptionUseScenarios?highlight=%28CategoryWebDescription%29 Other use scenarios that come to mind: 1. Comparing descriptions of two API's. For example, scuttle may claim to implement some/all of the del.icio.us API. 2. Ability to mark a subset of an existing API; again, for example, to show what subset of the del.icio.us API another similar service implements. I find myself using a few social bookmarking systems: public (del.icio.us), corporate intranet, work group (when the corporate implementation chokes on some bookmarks). I use bookmarklets and firefox extensions that work with one API (i.e., del.icio.us), and I want to adapt them to work with the other services. This involves a comparison of what API subset a tool (bookmarklet, browser extension) uses and what API subset an alternative service implements. Another interesting aspect of interface description is redirection. For example, [1] will redirect to [2]. [1] http://del.icio.us/url/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fesw.w3.org%2Ftopic%2FFrontPage [2] http://del.icio.us/url/0d7a759146fad6ec8652c08cfcba98cc Paul
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