- From: Graham Klyne <gk@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 15:46:22 +0100
- To: Martin Duerst <duerst@w3.org>, Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, rdf core <w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org>, i18n <w3c-i18n-ig@w3.org>
At 14:33 21/07/03 -0400, Martin Duerst wrote: >There is no 'Web applications', the >Web is one single big application. Similarly, there should not really >be anything called an 'RDF application'. All RDF together should be >the application. I'm sorry, I just can't buy that. Further, the web architecture document [1] makes numerous references to "applications" in the web... [[ Depending on the application, an agent may invest more processing effort ... ]] [[ Furthermore, designers should expect that it will prove useful to be able to share a URI across applications ... ]] [[ The Web can be used to interchange resource representations in any format. This flexibility is important, since there is continuing progress in the development of new data formats for new applications and the refinement of existing ones. ]] [[ Sometimes it is necessary (and good for given application) to break layers. ]] [[ The trade-offs between binary and textual data formats are complex and application-dependent. ]] [[ All things being equal (a rare state of affairs) textual formats are generally preferable to binary ones in Web applications. ]] [[ There are many cases where final-form is an application requirement ... ]] [[ Authors and applications can use URIs uniformly to identify different resources on the Web. ]] [[ Some applications (and some users) will undoubtedly build new resources by combining several representations together. ]] etc. #g -- [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/webarch/ ------------------- Graham Klyne <GK@NineByNine.org> PGP: 0FAA 69FF C083 000B A2E9 A131 01B9 1C7A DBCA CB5E
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