- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 23:23:24 -0500 (EST)
- To: noah_mendelsohn@us.ibm.com (Noah Mendelsohn)
- Cc: mnot@mnot.net ('Mark Nottingham'), skw@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Williams Stuart), xml-dist-app@w3.org
> The only difference I see per web architecture between > > http://numbers.com/multiply?inputnumber1="3"+inputnumber2="4" > > and > > http://numbers.com/?operation="multiply"+inputnumber1="3"+inputnumber2="4" > > is that we can guess that to implement both multiplication and division, > the first style would result in two separate parameterized web resources > (a multiplying resource, and a dividing resource) while the second would > use a single parameterized resource (an arithmetic resource). I don't see > the two as deeply different from a web architecture point of view. The difference is that in the former form, a user doesn't know whether the operation being performed is multiplication or division. In the latter form, the client is required to specify the desired operation. MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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