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It’s the URL printed in the book.
Do you understand the relationship between questions and answers? You're answering a question no one asked. Why bother responding at all?
Stop being an obtuse prick :)
Does anyone know if there is a URL for Tim Berners-Lee's book "Weaving the Web", where it is accessible over HTTP? Not even talking about gratis open access, just whether or not the Web-of-documents vision is actually in practice for TimBL's book itself. Also not talking about a link to a storefront that sells it, or a promo site, or a faithfully reproduced but non-canonical link to a warez'd copy. Specifically askin…
Correcting for the intention: yes, books are easy to identify! https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/isbn> You also want to able to dereference. I edited my DOM copy of your comment to add the hyperlink to the book's name, then clicked it. Firefox prompted me to pick a local executable. ISTR Netscape used to handle this a bit more gracefully. It is perfectly okay that not every UA implements every conceivable scheme, the particularities of the failure do not diminish the idea of the Web.
I happen to know archivists and librarians. They use specialised information systems that are not part of the Web. There does not seem to be an urgent need to uplift the legacy.
IMO the grade is not "no", but "the foundations are there ready to be built upon".
Imagine that the early purpose was just to allow physicists working in big collaboration to work together from different places and handle data more easily. Who could guess that any of that will happen as a byproduct.
I’m more impressed that the first smartphone is only 14 years old and it has changed so much to our lives: - First, it developed the usage of superficial socialization (lifestyle show-off, body photos, up to lewd behaviors or prostitution, depression for a lot of people, massive societal dopamine addiction), - Second, Youtube was the world wild web of all politics and militant movements, - We’re in a third phase wher…
I think smartphones might be a bit older than that. I remember using some phones in 2003 that already had a basic internet connection (wap), camera, and on which you could check your emails. The first versions of a blackberry that could do emails was 1999 I think. And PalmPilots in 1997. The iphone was just a cooler and more powerful toy.
In some ways it's still a better pocketable internet appliance than the slab-o-glass smartphones which replaced it.
It's great that the web is so durable and long-lived, but I wonder about the health of it - it's got so complicated that we're down to only three implementations (Firefox, Chromium, WebKit), no realistic possibility of a new engine emerging, and essentially one implementation defining the standard. I wonder where we'll be in another 30 years?
This is the greatest crime against the web, IMO. The growing complexity for the past decade has been driven almost entirely by Google. I'm now pretty convinced they did it as a part of an explicit strategy. It's so insidious - on the one hand they are improving the web, on the other hand, the complexity they are driving makes the web more vulnerable.
Yep. First they embraced the browser by building some nice shiny, er, Chrome on top of WebKit.
Then, they proceeded to extend it, and extend it, and extend it. While paying Mozilla to stay in business, to avoid antitrust attention.
Now they've very nearly extinguished the other engines.
What can I say, they learned from the best.
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Do you understand the relationship between questions and answers? You're answering a question no one asked. Why bother responding at all?
The book has a URL. You seem to want something else. Stop being an obtuse prick :)
No matter how many inane replies you write (calling other people obtuse), it's not going to change the fact that you ignored the request and went ahead and posted a link to a marketing page, anyway. (As if, had it been the case that someone were actually looking for that page, they wouldn't have been able to find it in 5 seconds just like you did.) One can only imagine that you're the kind of person who spends their days reading half the words in an email, support ticket, or StackOverflow question, comprehending none of what the actual message is but convincing yourself you've got a handle on it, and then closing them by the dozen with some non-resolution while exclaiming "SOLVED!" and patting yourself on the back at the end of the day for a job well done.
Does anyone know if there is a URL for Tim Berners-Lee's book "Weaving the Web", where it is accessible over HTTP? Not even talking about gratis open access, just whether or not the Web-of-documents vision is actually in practice for TimBL's book itself. Also not talking about a link to a storefront that sells it, or a promo site, or a faithfully reproduced but non-canonical link to a warez'd copy. Specifically askin…
To the exact questions you asked, the answer is mu because of https://www.w3.org/TR/uri-clarification/ >. Correcting for the intention: yes, books are easy to identify! https://www.iana.org/assignments/urn-formal/isbn > You also want to able to dereference. I edited my DOM copy of your comment to add the hyperlink to the book's name, then clicked it. Firefox prompted me to pick a local executable. ISTR Netscape used…
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The book has a URL. You seem to want something else. Stop being an obtuse prick :)
It's almost as if no one who buys that book and is in the middle of reading it but forgets it on their desk one day is going to say, "I know, I'll visit https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/Weaving/ and pick up reading where I left off." No matter how many inane replies you write (calling other people obtuse), it's not going to change the fact that you ignored the request and went ahead and posted a link to a market…