- From: Malcolm Rowe <malcolm-what@farside.org.uk>
- Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2004 17:35:17 +0100
Doron Rosenberg writes: > [...] a web services hosting > domain can allow cross domain calls to it, controlled via an XML file fwiw, one disadvantage of this approach is that it relies on the existence of a particular file at the root directory. The problems with this method are: * It assumes that "one hostname = one web 'site'", where 'site' is an administrative grouping. There's no way to delegate responsibility closer to the user of the functionality. * It pollutes the URI namespace, which should be under the control of the site's owner. This is W3C TAG issue siteData-36. References: http://www.w3.org/2001/tag/issues.html#siteData-36 http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/02/27/Websites http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2004/01/08/WebSite36 > Would the WhatWG be the right place to standardize this? It could be > made more generic than just Web Services, If WHATWG was to pick some of this up, I think that they should try to avoid the problems mentioned above, or, if at all possible, work with the TAG to help explore some possible solutions to the general issue. Regards, Malcolm
Received on Saturday, 24 July 2004 09:35:17 UTC