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% market share as of last March [1]. Also, most of those reported instances of IE6 usage may be due to the AVG Linkscanner bot, which uses an IE6 ID string [2]. I know IE6 has been a thorn in our sides for years, but maybe it is time to let it go.
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. Yes, the market share of IE is decreasing (thank heavens!) but we still have a live usecase that showcases why slash style of URIs are important and useful.
Kingsley
Regards, Dave [1] http://www.sitepoint.com/ie6-usage-below-5-percent-browser-trends/ [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers#OverestimationKingsleyOn Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 1:07 PM, Kingsley Idehen<[email protected]> 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 303's. Which is basically another way of seeking a case for slash terminated URIs re. Linked Data deployment.Not exactly - I'm trying to build a case against hash URIs.A case against hash URIs is that your deployment won't play well with IE 6. The problem with IE 6 is that it sends # over the wire. Other browsers don't. Thus, you (the publisher) has extra work on your hands should you want your Linked Data deployment to cater to IE 6 users. This is why DBpedia opted to use slash URIs since that meant a single set of re-write rules without any exception oriented heuristics for IE 6 user agents. -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen-- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
-- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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