- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 17:26:01 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > I could live with > > The World Wide Web is a networked information space consisting > of resources that are interconnected via explicit links defined > by hypertext and metadata found in that space. I'm missing the point. When a representation contains a URI (perhaps taking the form of a reference, but that's orthogonal), and the URI is identifiable as such, then there is a link, de facto. Whether the author's intention was to encode it as a link (e.g. <a href=) or as an RDF assertion or as a namespace name is less interesting; one reason why a system defined by representational state transfer is superior to one defined by yet another API. To me, the phrase "and metadata" is entirely 100% opaque, whereas everyone knows what a hyperlink is. Also, some grammar engineering is needed; do you mean "...defined by hypertext, and metadata found in that space" or "...defined by hypertext (and metadata) found in that space"? Oh hold on, it's worse, I just realized I may have parsed it wrong, are you saying that the explicit links are not defined by metadata? Let me try: The World Wide Web is a network-spanning information space which contains resources and interconnections (some encoded explicitly in hypertext style) between those resources. > I am really, really, really trying hard to encompass both the > browser technology and a theoretical ontology graph consisting > solely of terms and definitions. Closer? -- Cheers, Tim Bray (http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/)
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