- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 04 Jan 2006 08:07:31 -0600
- To: Bill de hÓra <dehora@eircom.net>
- Cc: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@Sun.COM>, www-tag@w3.org
On Wed, 2006-01-04 at 02:59 +0000, Bill de hÓra wrote: > Dan Connolly wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:52 -0500, Elliotte Harold wrote: > > [...] > > > >>Bottom line: the reader of a document is ultimately responsible for > >>understanding the document. Different readers will understand different > >>things. > > > > > > In extreme cases, yes; but mostly, they'll understand the same > > thing; that's where the web gets its value. It facilitates > > shared understanding by providing mechanisms to bind (relatively) small > > symbols like http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BAR_Camp to interesting and > > useful meanings. > > For XML documents: isn't this why we have the application/xml+ range of > mimetypes? Yes, MIME types are an important part of grounding documents in the Web: On Tue, 2006-01-03 at 15:28 -0500, Norman Walsh wrote: [...] > That interaction will possibly return a stream of bits and > an identifier, such as a MIME media type, which will indicate how > those bits are to be interpreted. Following the media type > registration will lead to a format specification where she will learn > how to interpret the bits and what information content is embodied in > them. > cheers > Bill -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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