- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- Date: Tue, 30 Sep 2003 07:56:41 -0700
- To: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@apache.org>
- Cc: "Ian B. Jacobs" <ij@w3.org>, www-tag@w3.org
Roy T. Fielding wrote: > Oh, I see what you are getting at, though now we are also facing > confusion over "networked" (meaning connected like a graph) versus > spanning the Internet network. Let's go back to the base concepts: > > The World Wide Web is an information space consisting of resources > that are interconnected by links defined within that space. > > Maybe that is sufficient to describe the scope of the Web? Hmm, it seems to me that the fact that everything works over the network is a key defining component. The description above could apply to Hypercard or even the 1993 version of Microsoft help. I'm OK with the language above but think we should re-insert "that spans networks" after "information space". Or "network-spanning" before it. > A link defines a relationship that can be considered active or > passive, depending upon the type of information system in use. > For example, hypertext browsers consider anchors and in-line image > references to be active links (hyperlinks), whereas a reasoning > system might focus activity on namespace references, a > messaging agent might traverse service descriptions, or a > subscriber might describe "callback" control-points. Interesting. Probably a few words on the taxonomy of linkage is appropriate to this document, it probably lives most naturally in the "identification" section. Also need to make the point that while an <a href="" is nominally one-way, the relationship is two-way; plus some other things that were written up in the XLink preamble. -Tim
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