Marcos,
The TAG suggested that I re-post the idea that I floated at the beginning of
this thread on the new list at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and encourage any continuation
of this thread to take place there - which I have now done [1].
Also, with some irony, I think that I'm beginning to get a better understanding
of your problem, the key for me being your assertion in an earlier messages:
"I think we have different goals in respect to [3], and that might be
causing me confusion. For instance, Widgets do not have a need to
remotely access and reference items within a web accessible package.
Conversely, Web apps just needs to access files within a locally
stored package."
Your problem is centered around how to generate absolute URI from package
relative URI driven primarily by a need for API compatibility rather than a
need to be able to make global sharable references. I don't know whether "...do
not need to..." means simply "...don't..." or even more strongly "...will never
have to...". If the possibilty exists then I think that your requirements need
to take that into account. OTOH if it is *never* going to happen... I'll have
to scratch my head a bit more to think about how you'd come up with a base URI
and what the risks were of essentially a locally scoped identifier escaping
into the wild by acccident.
Stuart
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On Behalf Of Williams, Stuart (HP Labs, Bristol)
> Sent: 02 December 2008 15:02
> To: Marcos Caceres
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; public-webapps
> Subject: RE: Sketch of an idea to address widget/package
> addressing with fragID syntax and media-type defn.
>
>
> Hello Marcos,
>
> > > Well, I and the TAG have expressed interest in that more
> general problem[3].
> > > If you reject input on that basis you make it very hard
> for us to help you.
> > > Maybe our help is not what you want.
> > >
> >
> > No no no! I'm not rejecting any input. Honestly, I didn't mean to
> > sound like I was. I'm sorry you interpreted my comments that way.
>
> My apologies too for any misinterpretation... lets set that
> aside and continue.
>
> I'll chew some more on the rest of you message... but I have
> other things that I need to do right now.
>
> Stuart
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