Bookmarks and Favourites
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.. or should that be Bookmarks and Favorites. Bookmarks are what Google, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), Mozilla Firefox and many others call them. However Microsoft Internet Explorer sticks to the U.S. spelling and calls them Favorites even in the UK. However you refer to them, you know what we’re talking about. It’s your list of your favourite spots on the Internet to visit. You might even send one of them to a friend if you think it’s a particularly memorable experience.
Given that your friend may use a different device, perhaps even a smart phone, it would be ideal if everyone stuck to the One Web Principle. This ensures that content provided by accessing a URI yields a thematically coherent experience when accessed from different devices. In other words, even if your friend doesn’t see it exactly as you do, they will get something that hangs together and gives the essence of what you experienced. So the traditional view is that your Bookmark list or Favorite list is a set of URIs.
That’s fine in principle, but it currently doesn’t work in practice. This is why StayGoLinks is promoting the idea of a Multi-Web Practice, where website owners arrange associated web pages that contain the same essence but are suitable for a variety of devices. Each web page has its own URI but the set is held in an array that is called an AGI (Array of Graphic Identifiers). If the Bookmark or Favorite list contains AGIs instead of URIs, then any viewer can see the content in a view optimized for their specific device. Such an AGI Bookmark can safely be sent via e-mail with the assurance that the recipient will see the content in a satisfactory manner.
Typically such an AGI might contain URIs for web pages suitable for a Desktop PC, a PDA and a cell phone. However the idea can easily be extended to include other URIs that are often already in existence and are linked to the particular web page content. In a sense these are developed for other “devices”. For example there may be a news feed associated with the web page (viewed in a news feed aggregator). There may also be a print version of the web version (output to a printer), perhaps provided in a PDF format. There could even be a podcast or a video. Provided each of these is identified by a URI, then the AGI for this could include all the URIs for these other “devices”. The AGI would then be displayed in the following format:
(UPC,UPDA,Ucell,URSS,UPDF,Uvideo)
Pushing the concept even further, other types of associated files can be listed in the AGI. For example at the moment, web designers try to ensure that web pages will be coded in such a way that they are accessible to those with visual acuity problems using a Screen Reader. Such Accessibility for web pages is now becoming a legal necessity in some jurisdictions. With the AGI concept, an associated web page could be designed specifically for a Screen Reader and its URI would then become a further element in the AGI. This is a very much easier project than trying to apply a special CSS style sheet for the aural media type (intended for speech synthesizers) to a regular web page. Again the Screen Reader would only have to download the URI specifically prepared for it, thus reducing bandwidth requirements.
In summary, with AGIs you really can exchange your Bookmarks or Favorites with your friends with reasonable assurance that they’ll be as impressed as you were.
Associated Concepts: URI << One Web || Multi-Web >> AGI
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