AGI, a multi-dimensional version of the URI
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An earlier post on The One Web Principle Or A Multi-Web Practice suggested that the One Web Principle will perhaps never get sufficient traction. The reasons for this are that the One Web Principle is
(A) technically challenging, given the wide variety of devices
(B) involves web pages that are too large for mobile devices, given costly bandwidth and limited battery capacities
(C) is unlikely to develop any momentum among web designers given Reasons A and B, and
(D) given Reason C, other solutions will be developed to avoid the need for the One Web Principle
This position may be seen as too pessimistic by some. However there is some support for the view that the Tower of Babel would have been more likely than a consensus on mobile standards.
One alternative to the One Web Principle is the Multi-Web Practice. This encourages website owners to develop a number of associated web pages, each optimized for a particular device. For a small number of these, this can sometimes be achieved by using alternative CSS style sheets. However this does not avoid the extra burdens imposed on Mobile devices that were discussed above.
Accepting that different but associated web pages will be provided for different devices can avoid the Mobile device burdens. Each device can receive a web page optimized for its own capabilities. The one penalty that attaches to this approach is how associated web pages can maintain linkages to show this association. This is where StayGoLinks has a solution to propose
The One Web Principle sets as a goal that content provided by accessing a URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) yields a thematically coherent experience when accessed from different devices. The AGI, which stands for Array of Graphic Identifiers, is the equivalent entity when considering the Multi-Web Practice. If a series of associated web pages are developed for a series of devices, then the AGI for this series of associated web pages is a vector of the URIs for the individual web pages. A simple example will illustrate this.
Suppose web pages are designed to present the same content or summary of the content to the following devices:
- High Resolution Desktop device
- Low Resolution Desktop device
- PDA
- Smart Phone
- Cell Phone
Each web page has its own URI. The full series are U1, U2, U3, U4 and U5. The AGI for this series of web pages would then be a vector of the 5 URIs usually displayed as follows:
(U1, U2, U3, U4, U5)
Under this arrangement, the 2nd device would always use the 2nd URI in the AGI vector. If someone else had looked at the same content using a device of the 4th type, they would then have been using the 4th URI, which is U4. If they store the AGI as a Favorite, they can access that same web page content via another device, say the first device, and automatically their device of type 1 would use the first URI, that is U1.
Equally they could e-mail the AGI to a friend and their friend’s device would then view the web page content by accessing the appropriate URI.
The AGI concept is very powerful and can be extended in a variety of ways. This will be discussed in future posts. The whole is the subject of a pending patent.
Associated Concepts: URI << One Web || Multi-Web >> AGI
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