- From: Karl Dubost <karl@w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 18:26:15 +0900
Le 26 ao?t 2008 ? 16:04, Kristof Zelechovski a ?crit : > Web browsers are (hopefully) designed so that they run in every > culture. If > you define a custom vocabulary without considering its ability to > describe > phenomena of other cultures and try to impose it worldwide, you do > more harm > than good to the representatives of those cultures. The Web could have been designed in a Web of a huge central database of hypertext links. When the Web has been created it was mostly what hypertext solutions were proposing. Having the possibility to rely on domain name system to create URLs has been the major shift in conceiving a distributed hypertext system. People could create independently without coordination their own Web site, put it online. Then some people could link to these Web sites from their own pages if they happen to know it. A lot of craps have been put out there, a lot of good Web sites, a lot of duplicates too. In the end, the network effects, the social aspects of connecting has given places of references, has stabilized for a time some Web sites. Some have disappeared. There are broken links everywhere, but the net effect is? the Web. not that bad, no? RDFa (and RDF effort in general) proposes exactly the same thing. -- Karl Dubost - W3C http://www.w3.org/QA/ Be Strict To Be Cool
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