Re: Javascriptfragid semantics

On 2010-12 -02, at 09:53, Tim Berners-Lee wrote:

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> On 2010-11 -29, at 19:05, Nathan wrote:
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>> Tim Berners-Lee wrote:
>>> Well, not really.
>>> A general way of saying it is that the fragid is a document-global identifier in whatever language.   You invent a new language, and it get s new global identifiers
>>> So in a javascript module, for example,  I would expect
>>> foo.js#bar to be the  global variable bar in the file foo.
>> 
>> ahh insightful, I'd never seen it quite like that, so jumping a few hops one might conceivably specify a js require function and do something like:
>> 
>> FastGraph = require('http://openjs.net/api/core.js#FastGraph);
> 
> Yes, absolutely. With an RDF mesh of dependencies, that would
> be a nice packaging system.
> 
> 
> using core as 'http://openjs.net/api/core.js#' {
> 	var fg = new core::FastGraph();
> 	...
> }
> 
> It was interesting to chat with Brendan Eick about the ecmascript and e4X (ecmascript for xml) history.

oops typo I Mean Brendan Eich of course

> He mentioned e4x is actually implemented for example in Rhino, and uses :: for namespaces,
> but only in the context of XML, not RDF or js itself.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ECMAScript_for_XML
> http://www.ecma-international.org/publications/files/ECMA-ST/Ecma-357.pdf
> 
> 
> 
>> Thus enabling a universal require for js and an open web scale set of classes that can be used anywhere - although perhaps I read too far in to it!
> 
> No, I think it would be neat.
> See the red_import() for Python which
> http://redfoot.net/2002/12/03/redfoot-1.7.3/doc/helloworld.html
> alas 404
> 
>> 
>>> It is really important to be able to ivent new languages,
>>> and so it hard to say how theyr global address space will work.
>>> In the case of HTML and RDFA, we have a mixture of languages
>>> so an localid  can either identify an HTML anchor or a RDF concept.
>>> I don't like the idea of things being both.
>> 
>> Afaict, at runtime the two localids can never conflict, one is used within the scope of the DOM and the other combined with a string to create an RDF URI Reference / IRI - so is the issue that at webscale, when you encounter something with a fragmentid and that derefs to an HTML+RDFa document, you don't know to what it refers (wondering if again that's covered by the context within which you're asking the question),
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> What a URI refers to must NEVER be covered by the context in which you ask the question.
> That is important web architecture.
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>> so then is it to do with what statements one may make about the said uri -with-frag thus creating possible ambiguity there?
> 
> Well, might you want to use RDF languages to talk about fragments of a hypertext document too?
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> 	ele:Mg a ch:Element;   :warningNotice <warnings#mg>.
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> where warnings#mg is an anchor within an HTML document.
> Or also you might want an RDF view of the DOM inside a script.
> 
> Tim
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