Cart
|
[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Expertise and Innovation - was Re: Non-Borg serv
It was the devaluing of link maintenance ("let 'em snap").
Before that, people broke their intellectual necks trying
to come up with non-system identifiers. Tim essentially
got rid of non-system identifiers. In the 'web architecture',
it is all one system called the 'universe'.
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Joshua Allen [mailto:joshuaa@m...]
> Those who said that Tim's work was "trivial", or "not-new" or
> "didn't solve interesting problems" were right. But those who said it
Did "memex" have the concept of universal identifiers? I know that some
of the other hypermedia systems at the time permitted linking to a
common global id, but it was cumbersome and not the "normal" way of
doing links. The WWW is still lagging functionality of many of those
hypermedia systems, but the fact that using "universal" identifiers was
the "standard" way of identifying targets was at least as important as
having a killer app IMO. I think that the URI, not the hyperlink, is
the fundamental innovation of the WWW -- and in fact the true potential
of the web lies with use of URIs beyond hypermedia.
(And by "universal", I mean you have a string identifier that is going
to give the exact same result no matter whether called by a user on a
workstation in Singapore or a user at CERN.)
|
PURCHASE STYLUS STUDIO ONLINE TODAY!Purchasing Stylus Studio from our online shop is Easy, Secure and Value Priced! 
Download The World's Best XML IDE!Accelerate XML development with our award-winning XML IDE - Download a free trial today! Subscribe in XML format
|
|||||||||
