AGI, Array of Graphic Identifiers
A URI (Uniform Resource Identifier) defines a point in Internet (Web) space, as the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) explains. This ‘point in Web space’ notion relates well to the One Web Principle. Any device can ‘look’ at that Web point and receive a ‘thematically coherent experience‘ as it renders that web page. It sounds good in theory. However the One Web Principle is a challenge for any web designer. Whether we will now see a flood of websites in conformance with the One Web Principle is a matter of some conjecture.
A more practical initiative is to encourage the Multi-Web Practice. This encourages website owners to develop a series of associated web pages that give excellent user experiences on their respective devices. Each web page has its individual URI to define its place in the Internet. Of course it may only be visible or give a satisfactory display on its related device. If web pages are available for a list of devices, then symbolically the URI for the device number i in the list can be represented by Ui.
The AGI (Array of Graphic Identifiers) is a way of defining the ‘point in Internet space’ for this group of associated web pages. If only a series of URIs is involved, then this can be represented by a vector of the URIs, normally denoted by the following expression, (U1, U2, .., Un, .., UN). A vector is the simplest example of an array. The term array is used in this definition since the array format has functional advantages in more complex situations.
Associated Concepts:
URI << One Web << Adaptation Or Alternation >> Multi-Web >> AGI
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