- From: Bonner, Matt <matt.bonner@hp.com>
- Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2008 23:17:07 +0000
not speaking for HP here... Elliotte Harold wrote: > I don't have time to respond in detail to each of the valid points > your raise. I may later. However each of them can be handled in a > different way that doesn't require third party content and mashups. > The reason we have designed these systems this way is because it was > quick and easy, not because it was the only way to do these tasks. That seems overly simplified. Allowing links across sites creates networks. I can link to a graph of the TED spread [1], to a real-time picture of the traffic on a nearby freeway and to a calendar gadget from three different sites because those sites are authorities for those topics. Of course there's your way around all that: making local copies. But that brings obvious costs in network and disk usage. Also, the same- host restriction raises the barrier to the average user making a web page. And quite obviously, many companies would take umbrage if page authors copied their contents. There are doubtless other problems w/ the same-host approach, but these are a few big ones I see. Matt [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TED_spread -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: smime.p7s Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature Size: 4798 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.whatwg.org/pipermail/whatwg-whatwg.org/attachments/20081007/9cdbc1da/attachment.bin>
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