[Sigia-l] That stuff we do, ontologically speaking

[Eric Scheid]

On 11/2/08 2:23 AM, "Ruth Kaufman" <ruth.kaufman at gmail.com> wrote:

> Won't reply to all your comments. Glad you found my list useful. Regarding
> the relationship of URLs to pages, and how URLs necessitate the existence of
> pages, I agree that the word "page" is strongly in our vernacular, but what
> the URLs are linking to (in rich internet apps) are often states and
> discrete content, which is then wrapped dynamically in a navigation/display
> template.

Indeed. For example, I was looking at wowgemfinder.com this morning, and the
main page is at <http://www.wowgemfinder.com/cut_gems/list/>, while
selective filtering results in URLs like:

http://www.wowgemfinder.com/cut_gems/list/matches-meta-socket
http://www.wowgemfinder.com/cut_gems/list/matches-meta-socket+healing
http://www.wowgemfinder.com/cut_gems/list/healing+intellect
http://www.wowgemfinder.com/cut_gems/list/intellect+horde

and so on. Lots of different URLs, all the same resource, just different
filtered views of that resource. Metaphysically are these all the same page,
or different pages? Does calling the underlying entity a "resource" (in best
w3c tradition) instead of "page" help?

e.