Hi. My colleague, Don Cruickshank asked me if it was good practice to rewrite the URI in the Address Bar to be the NIR, rather than the IR. I was surprised, but he tells me that it is permitted in HTML5. My response was "Er, yes, sounds great!"
Finally we can get away from having to explain to users that the URL of the document cannot be cut and pasted as the URI! Yippeeee! Don is about to make the MyExperiment site move to this, so that URIs such as http://www.myexperiment.org/workflows/158.html will not show the ".html" And if sites such as dbpedia were to adopt this, it would mean I no longer make the mistake of doing things like "fbase:Italy owl:sameAs http://dbpedia.org/page/Italy"; when I cut and paste or whatever, and would find them in the wild a lot less. Not to mention me making the same mistake when I use my own RKBExplorer IDs. This sort of seems non-controversial - and I don't think I have seen no discussion of it here, either because it hasn't hit the radar, or it is a http://dbpedia.org/page/Slam_dunk (sic). So is it? Cheers -- Hugh Glaser, Web and Internet Science Electronics and Computer Science, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045 Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652 http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/
