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by onli 4439 days ago
Now I feel misunderstood.

I'm perfectly fine with using different devices and different presentations. But changing mediums is stronger than just changing the device or the presentation. The web has an underlying vision that can't be transported to every medium:

> He [Tim Berners-Lee] kicked off by explaining what he means by the two words "semantic" and "web." Underlying the Web was the philosophy of a navigable space, with a mapping from URI to resources. He stressed that a URI was an identifier for a resource, and not a recipe for its retrieval.

Sure, maybe you can argue that you can build something like this with paper, but it is not practical. And you can't do that anymore when going to the semantic web.

Therefore, I don't think you can expect webpages to support mediums like paper that are intrinsically not web-able.

That's all I'm saying. Nothing about ads, nothing about apps, nothing about app-browsers.

PS: Why the downvotes? Did I formulate an attack I didn't realize?

1 comments

I don't understand. Paper can't navigate but you don't need navigation. Why can't the underlying vision of everything except navigation work just as well?
The web is more than a place to read an article like on paper. It is a place where articles (ressources) have their own URL and are linkable, sometimes even in both directions (think of trackbacks and pingbacks, following the vision that was way more prominent in the beginning, or xanadu). You need navigation for that, it is essential for what the web provides.