Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 20/10/2011 01:18, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: The problem, as I see it, is that developers start from the NIR but then use web browsers to find their way round the data and then cut paste the browser locations they find, thus ending up with IRs where they should

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-20 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 20/10/2011 00:35, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: On 18 Oct 2011, at 14:49, Michael Smethurst wrote: On 18/10/2011 11:30, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: snip So can I infer from this?: In a world where I only have one of animals (1) and (2) (despite this

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-20 Thread Nathan
Michael Smethurst wrote: On 20/10/2011 01:18, Nathan nat...@webr3.org wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: The problem, as I see it, is that developers start from the NIR but then use web browsers to find their way round the data and then cut paste the browser locations they find, thus ending up

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-20 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/20/11 5:34 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: On 20/10/2011 01:18, Nathannat...@webr3.org wrote: Dave Reynolds wrote: The problem, as I see it, is that developers start from the NIR but then use web browsers to find their way round the data and then cut paste the browser locations they

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/18/11 1:49 PM, Jonathan Rees wrote: I'm not trying to be difficult, I just really don't get what you're saying. I believe the your quests was about a case for 303's. Which is basically another way of seeking a case for slash terminated URIs re. Linked Data deployment. Not exactly

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 18/10/2011 11:30, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: Hi. On 18 Oct 2011, at 10:57, Michael Smethurst wrote: Hi Bernard Glad to hear I¹m finally making sense to someone... :-/ I think I might be still with you ;-) And finding the discussion very helpful - thanks. And I'm

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Paul Wilton
what is this IE6 that you talk about ? :) On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 10/18/11 1:49 PM, Jonathan Rees wrote: I'm not trying to be difficult, I just really don't get what you're saying.  I believe the your quests was about a case for

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread David Wood
On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/19/11 8:49 AM, Paul Wilton wrote: what is this IE6 that you talk about ? :) Internet Explorer 6. The browser that still dominates market share across WWW end-users :-) ...with less than 5% market share as of last March [1].

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/19/11 10:14 AM, David Wood wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/19/11 8:49 AM, Paul Wilton wrote: what is this IE6 that you talk about ? :) Internet Explorer 6. The browser that still dominates market share across WWW end-users :-) ...with less than 5%

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread David Wood
On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:40, Kingsley Idehen wrote: We don't believe is forcing issues on end-users by disrupting them via actions such as: implementing a Linked Data URI style for something like DBpedia that works modulo IE 6. I respect your position, but I do :) Regards, Dave

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Nathan
David Wood wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:40, Kingsley Idehen wrote: We don't believe is forcing issues on end-users by disrupting them via actions such as: implementing a Linked Data URI style for something like DBpedia that works modulo IE 6. I respect your position, but I do :) Under what

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Tom Scott
On 19 Oct 2011, at 15:42, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 10/19/11 10:14 AM, David Wood wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/19/11 8:49 AM, Paul Wilton wrote: what is this IE6 that you talk about ? :) Internet Explorer 6. The browser that still

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 18 Oct 2011, at 14:49, Michael Smethurst wrote: On 18/10/2011 11:30, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: snip So can I infer from this?: In a world where I only have one of animals (1) and (2) (despite this possibly or definitely in your view being the wrong way to do it),

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Nathan
Dave Reynolds wrote: The problem, as I see it, is that developers start from the NIR but then use web browsers to find their way round the data and then cut paste the browser locations they find, thus ending up with IRs where they should have had NIRs. Agree, you put that very nicely Dave.

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-19 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/19/11 6:50 PM, Tom Scott wrote: On 19 Oct 2011, at 15:42, Kingsley Idehenkide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 10/19/11 10:14 AM, David Wood wrote: On Oct 19, 2011, at 10:02, Kingsley Idehen wrote: On 10/19/11 8:49 AM, Paul Wilton wrote: what is this IE6 that you talk about ? :)

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
Hi Bernard Glad to hear I¹m finally making sense to someone... :-/ What you said. Only additions would be: The first URI is used in RDF descriptions of the thing, that I get for example at http://example.org/resource/foo.rdf For completeness: and / or in rdfa at

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi. On 18 Oct 2011, at 10:57, Michael Smethurst wrote: Hi Bernard Glad to hear I’m finally making sense to someone... :-/ I think I might be still with you ;-) And finding the discussion very helpful - thanks. And I'm not disagreeing - I have lots of concerns about how we do things, as we

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Reynolds
Hi Michael, On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: All of the problems mentioned in this thread could be solved with the addition of a *generic* information resource URI that does the conneg separately from the 303. Target the *generic* information resource in your links

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
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Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Rees
Can someone remind me why people are using 303 at all, as opposed to hash URIs in the #_ or #it pattern? I've been trying to make a compelling case for 303 over hash, without much success. What would be most valuable is war stories, especially ones that answer questions that have been left

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 18/10/2011 11:30, Hugh Glaser h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk wrote: Hi. On 18 Oct 2011, at 10:57, Michael Smethurst wrote: Hi Bernard Glad to hear I¹m finally making sense to someone... :-/ I think I might be still with you ;-) And finding the discussion very helpful - thanks. And I'm

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
On 18/10/2011 12:26, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: All of the problems mentioned in this thread could be solved with the addition of a *generic* information resource URI that does the conneg

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 18 Oct 2011, at 15:16, Michael Smethurst wrote: On 18/10/2011 12:26, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: All of the problems mentioned in this thread could be solved with the addition of a

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Dave Reynolds
On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 15:16 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: On 18/10/2011 12:26, Dave Reynolds dave.e.reyno...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Michael, On Tue, 2011-10-18 at 10:57 +0100, Michael Smethurst wrote: All of the problems mentioned in this thread could be solved with the

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Rees
Wow, this is new information for me that the redirect-to-hash issue would bear on this question, so this is interesting. However I must be dense since I don't see how it applies. The scenario I'm talking about is: I want an RDF URI for something. I mint a URI A#it, publish a document at A

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/18/11 11:20 AM, Jonathan Rees wrote: Wow, this is new information for me that the redirect-to-hash issue would bear on this question, so this is interesting. However I must be dense since I don't see how it applies. The scenario I'm talking about is: I want an RDF URI for something. I

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
but that programme has nothing to say about teddy bears and train sets -Original Message- From: public-lod-requ...@w3.org on behalf of Jonathan Rees Sent: Tue 10/18/2011 4:20 PM To: Kingsley Idehen Cc: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI Wow, this is new information for me that the redirect

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/18/11 10:56 AM, Dave Reynolds wrote: But if we do want linked data to be adopted more generally and not confined to the lab then we do need publishing guidelines that work fornormal sites andnormal users. I think that means following the patterns of data.gov.uk and the rest is

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Rees
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Michael Smethurst michael.smethu...@bbc.co.uk wrote: I don't seem to be doing a such good job at lurking but I'd thought the current argument against fragment ids was you always get a 200 (so long as the information resource they hang off exists). So:

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Jonathan Rees
On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 10/18/11 11:20 AM, Jonathan Rees wrote: Wow, this is new information for me that the redirect-to-hash issue would bear on this question, so this is interesting. However I must be dense since I don't see how it

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Michael Smethurst
(which is) see mails passim :-) -Original Message- From: Jonathan Rees [mailto:j...@creativecommons.org] Sent: Tue 10/18/2011 6:27 PM To: Michael Smethurst Cc: Kingsley Idehen; public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Michael Smethurst michael.smethu

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/18/11 1:49 PM, Jonathan Rees wrote: On Tue, Oct 18, 2011 at 12:42 PM, Kingsley Idehen kide...@openlinksw.com wrote: On 10/18/11 11:20 AM, Jonathan Rees wrote: Wow, this is new information for me that the redirect-to-hash issue would bear on this question, so this is interesting.

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-18 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi Jonathan, It is not my understanding that Linked Data regards Hash URIs as a Bad Thing. On the contrary - they have been an accepted way of doing things for a while: http://www.w3.org/TR/cooluris/#choosing and now http://linkeddatabook.com/editions/1.0/#htoc14 both present them as alternatives,

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-17 Thread Kingsley Idehen
dimension :-) My 2p Michael -Original Message- From: public-lod-requ...@w3.org on behalf of Kingsley Idehen Sent: Sun 10/16/2011 2:41 PM To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI On 10/16/11 8:50 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: Hi Hugh Apologies for top post; blame webmail

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-17 Thread Michael Smethurst
/2011 12:50 PM To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI On 10/17/11 1:48 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: Hi Kingsley I've heard you make this argument several times in the past. But I don't understand why. How does it benefit publishers to expose the representation address? I am

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-16 Thread Michael Smethurst
[mailto:h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: Sat 10/15/2011 2:43 PM To: Michael Smethurst Cc: Norman Gray; Linking Open Data; Don Cruickshank Subject: Re: Address Bar URI Thanks Michael. Very helpful to bring in the SEO perspective, even on a Friday evening. On 14 Oct 2011, at 21:28, Michael Smethurst wrote

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-16 Thread Kingsley Idehen
matter itself :-) [SNIP] Michael Kingsley -Original Message- From: Hugh Glaser [mailto:h...@ecs.soton.ac.uk] Sent: Sat 10/15/2011 2:43 PM To: Michael Smethurst Cc: Norman Gray; Linking Open Data; Don Cruickshank Subject: Re: Address Bar URI Thanks Michael. Very helpful to bring

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-16 Thread Michael Smethurst
: public-lod-requ...@w3.org on behalf of Kingsley Idehen Sent: Sun 10/16/2011 2:41 PM To: public-lod@w3.org Subject: Re: Address Bar URI On 10/16/11 8:50 AM, Michael Smethurst wrote: Hi Hugh Apologies for top post; blame webmail :-/ (Using labels as they appear in my head; feel free to translate

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-15 Thread Giovanni Tummarello
me2c if you can rewrite http://yourserver/page so that it shows as http://yourpage/resource when page was the result of a redirect that would indeed finllay resolve the completely unacceptable situations where users are force to understand (and see in their browser bars) the distinction.

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-15 Thread Hugh Glaser
: Address Bar URI I am really no expert - really, so showing my ignorance here. I understand: JS: window.history.replaceState('Object', 'Title', '/another-new-url'); will do it happily, but I guess HTML5 is required. You can use it to change path and search strings, but not protocol

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-15 Thread David Wood
On Oct 14, 2011, at 18:22, Kingsley Idehen wrote: ... I posted a while back (a year or so) that in retrospect, when introducing DBpedia the flow *should* have been: 1. http://dbpedia.org/page/Linked_Data -- a bookmark friendly and familiar address (URL) of an HTML based resource that

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/15/11 11:40 AM, David Wood wrote: On Oct 14, 2011, at 18:22, Kingsley Idehen wrote: ... I posted a while back (a year or so) that in retrospect, when introducing DBpedia the flow *should* have been: 1. http://dbpedia.org/page/Linked_Data -- a bookmark friendly and familiar address

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-15 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/15/11 12:09 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: To my mind, conneg was and is the best solution to this problem. To my mind, I've never said or implied anything contrary. HTTP's ability to let user agents and servers negotiate data representation its most powerful features. Typo fix re.

Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Hugh Glaser
Hi. My colleague, Don Cruickshank asked me if it was good practice to rewrite the URI in the Address Bar to be the NIR, rather than the IR. I was surprised, but he tells me that it is permitted in HTML5. My response was Er, yes, sounds great! Finally we can get away from having to explain to

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/14/11 8:08 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: Hi. My colleague, Don Cruickshank asked me if it was good practice to rewrite the URI in the Address Bar to be the NIR, rather than the IR. I was surprised, but he tells me that it is permitted in HTML5. My response was Er, yes, sounds great! Finally we

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread David Wood
Hi Kingsley, I've asked this in private and it didn't move toward resolving the issue, so I will publicly support those who get tired of this behavior. Just why *do* you feel that flaming colleagues in public is good practice? What do you hope to achieve by it? Sure, we all occasionally

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/14/11 10:16 AM, David Wood wrote: Hi Kingsley, I've asked this in private and it didn't move toward resolving the issue, so I will publicly support those who get tired of this behavior. Just why *do* you feel that flaming colleagues in public is good practice? What do you hope to

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Hugh Glaser
Excellent, hopefully that is out of the way. Does anyone want to express an opinion on the original question, which boils down to: Is there a problem if going to URI http://www.myexperiment.org/workflows/158 (say, by clicking) in a browser then shows http://www.myexperiment.org/workflows/158

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Norman Gray
Hugh, greetings. On 2011 Oct 14, at 13:08, Hugh Glaser wrote: My colleague, Don Cruickshank asked me if it was good practice to rewrite the URI in the Address Bar to be the NIR, rather than the IR. I was surprised, but he tells me that it is permitted in HTML5. Can you expand on this a

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread David Wood
Hi Hugh, I like what you are saying and agree that this approach would be a real boon to the LOD community. Practical problems with using it are likely to be with subtleties of browser implementation. For example, Firefox resets all headers on redirect, including the Accept: header which

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/14/11 10:26 AM, Norman Gray wrote: Hugh, greetings. On 2011 Oct 14, at 13:08, Hugh Glaser wrote: My colleague, Don Cruickshank asked me if it was good practice to rewrite the URI in the Address Bar to be the NIR, rather than the IR. I was surprised, but he tells me that it is permitted

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks. I have just tried it on my mac with Firefox, Chrome, Safair, Flock and Opera. All seem to do it fine, although obviously I am running the latest versions. Ian Millard has modded rkbexplorer.com, so you can try: http://southampton.rkbexplorer.com/id/person-04860 It goes to

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Hugh Glaser
On 14 Oct 2011, at 16:16, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Now when Hugh simply states URI and quibbles about the effects of URI indirection. I consider your accusation that I am quibbling deeply insulting in the context of a professional discussion, and entirely inappropriate on a w3c mailing

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread David Wood
Hi Hugh, Sorry, I think we are talking about different ways of accomplishing the same thing. You seem to be suggesting that the user's browser rewrite the URL in the address bar to match the URI you want to see. This is completely client-side approach. As you said, you can do that if you

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks, yes. It is client side JS, not a complicated server-side. It won't work for the purposes I describe if the Linked Data publisher has chosen (or had to) have the document on a different domain, but for all the cases I can quickly think of it does. Of course it won't work if

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/14/11 11:36 AM, Hugh Glaser wrote: On 14 Oct 2011, at 16:16, Kingsley Idehen wrote: Now when Hugh simply states URI and quibbles about the effects of URI indirection. I consider your accusation that I am quibbling deeply insulting in the context of a professional discussion, and

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Hugh Glaser
Thanks Rob. I agree. However, in some sense we may now have the way to climb just a bit out of the mess we have got ourselves into (Get out of jail free card springs to mind!). So if I am a publisher who is doing the httpRange-14 thingy (as I am), do you think doing the client-side address bar

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/14/11 2:14 PM, Hugh Glaser wrote: Thanks Rob. I agree. However, in some sense we may now have the way to climb just a bit out of the mess we have got ourselves into (Get out of jail free card springs to mind!). So if I am a publisher who is doing the httpRange-14 thingy (as I am), do you

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Jonathan Rees
The address bar situation is discussed here http://www.w3.org/QA/2010/04/why_does_the_address_bar_show.html with reference to the Mozilla bug report. Basically the browser folks think retaining the pre-forwarding URI would be a kind of a lie, given that the content that's displayed came from

RE: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Michael Smethurst
for in the first place. [1] http://caniuse.com/#search=replaceState -Original Message- From: public-lod-requ...@w3.org on behalf of Hugh Glaser Sent: Fri 10/14/2011 4:22 PM To: Norman Gray Cc: Linking Open Data; Don Cruickshank Subject: Re: Address Bar URI I am really no expert - really, so

Re: Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
- From: public-lod-requ...@w3.org on behalf of Hugh Glaser Sent: Fri 10/14/2011 4:22 PM To: Norman Gray Cc: Linking Open Data; Don Cruickshank Subject: Re: Address Bar URI I am really no expert - really, so showing my ignorance here. I understand: JS: window.history.replaceState('Object', 'Title

Address Bar URI

2011-10-14 Thread Kingsley Idehen
On 10/14/11 6:22 PM, Kingsley Idehen wrote: ** Note intending to be rude or inflammatory etc.. ** Meant to say: ** NOT intending to be rude or inflammatory etc.. ** Could I rephrase your statement for sake of clarity, due to context: Users in older browsers are going to see (and copy and