- From: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Jan 1997 12:47:32 -0500
- To: Daniel LaLiberte <liberte@ncsa.uiuc.edu>, Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- Cc: uri@bunyip.com
At 11:27 am 09-01-97 -0600, Daniel LaLiberte wrote: >Larry Masinter writes: >But for all URLs (and URNs, if they may be distinguished), the URL >identifies the interaction. In the case of *some* URLs, the >interaction results in a data object, so it only *seems* that the URL >identifies the data object, but that is an indirect effect. I completely disagree. The URL identifies the object. That is fundamental to the concept of the web. The web is a web of quasi static resources, not a set of operations, as base. This is essential architecturally and from the UI point of view. How a given browser, desktop, etc, behaves when you activate the reference to an object is (mercifully) controllable by the user, just as in W95 one can chose a default operation on double-click on an icon. When you refer to a book, I can chose to buy it or get it from the library. If you wanted to make something which contains an interaction, some operation, then you would need a language in which resource identifiers were a part. But there are many languages for that, and there can be many more. (A frameset is one, a form is another, Java is another.) Tim PS: Above I use "object" to be consistent with the thread, I should use "resource".
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