- From: Simon St.Laurent <simonstl@simonstl.com>
- Date: 27 Feb 2002 20:11:15 -0500
- To: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
- Cc: TAG <www-tag@w3.org>
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 18:54, Tim Berners-Lee wrote: > Some of the following seem to me self-evident: > 5. Where all the information available can be expressed in one (not too > long) document then an indirection for the sake of it is an engineering > mistake. So clients should be prepared to accept information directly or > indirectly, ideally. Could you explain to me why this is self-evident? This claim seems like a catastrophic mistake to me at its foundation. The costs of indirection are low, the benefits substantial. The only reason I can find to oppose indirection is impatience, which itself feels to me like an engineering mistake. (I'd also question whether anything is properly speaking self-evident, but it seems to a phrase people like.) -- Simon St.Laurent Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets Errors, errors, all fall down! http://simonstl.com
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