-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 4/7/14, Jukka K. Korpela <[email protected]> wrote:
Undoubtedly it is fairly common, and we could present a good argument in favor of it: most country selection controls are faulty one way or another (e.g., missing new countries and displaying countries that have ceased to exist, or wrong names), and the quality might be improved, if they were based on native controls in browsers, updated frequently. ====================== I think the basic problem is that everyone's Boss has assumed dreams of incremental world domination. This leads coders to include the missing and stop when the Boss does not see anything missing. It is not a good way for Consultancies to work. A Strategy Markup Language[1], Data Journalism[2], Linked Data ID Server[3], or a Cloud have to work in a different way. One thing which considerably simplifies the task is to assume unidirectional data flow (either imports or exports). Also, the fine structure of imports in world trade is much more complex than that of exports. The evidence is that "The Silk Road" between Asia and Europe worked so well because the two local naming Authorities on either end made the mid-route secure per force although for practical reasons did not bother with interoperability. http://www.rustprivacy.org/faca/simTLD/ If this all sounds like browser/format wars and Social Networking privacy ills, it should, because the overarching logistics are the same. Pity, really, the ability to launch a Crusade or summon up the Mongol Horde might lead to a much more sane debate about data privacy. I originally named the scheme "The Silk Road" ... a week before a drug ring of the same name was busted. My bad luck :) The new name is simTLD (simulated Top Level Domain) is straightforward - Authority by circularly polarized coordinates. This is IEEE territory not W3C territory. ====================== But I'm afraid the counterarguments are too strong. -- Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/ ====================== I agree, this is way too ambitious for (every day use) HTML5 as it depends upon external standards for missing items. The possible depends on your definition of "data analytics" not on communication with markup languages. --Gannon [1] http://stratml.hyperbase.com/stratml.html [2] http://semanticommunity.info/ [3] http://id.loc.gov/
