- From: algermissen1971 <algermissen1971@me.com>
- Date: Fri, 07 Jun 2013 19:18:50 +0200
- To: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson)
- Cc: Nick Gall <nick.gall@gmail.com>, www-tag <www-tag@w3.org>
On 07.06.2013, at 18:20, ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) wrote: > > Happy to use another word, but not to avoid the difference I think we > shouldn't ignore: the use of URIs to get information (GET), and the > use of URIs to perform actions (POST). The fact that AWWW barely > mentioned the latter, and the introductory discussion in HTTPbis still > doesn't, is no excuse for ignoring the fact that the day is long past > where the Web was mostly about seeking and providing information: > today it's at least as much about _doing_ things: buying things, > joining groups, sending emails. The URIs we use to do such things > deserve to be taken seriously: suggesting that they "identify > resources" in the same way that e.g. the URI of my home page > "identifies a resource" just underscores the vacuity of the word > 'resource'. I am curious - why can't everybody just stick with how the architecture (style) has been defined by Roy? I'd rather encourage people to spend their time *explaining* what the definition of "resource" means to us than to call for RPC-ish terminology to make the audience feel at ease. "the use of URIs to perform actions" honestly makes me shiver - do we want to go back on square one? Jan > > ht > -- > Henry S. Thompson, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh > 10 Crichton Street, Edinburgh EH8 9AB, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 > Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@inf.ed.ac.uk > URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ > [mail from me _always_ has a .sig like this -- mail without it is forged spam] >
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