I'm increasingly baffled by ppl who draw a distinction between "the web" & "the browser". Most interesting properties are abt the browser.
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Replying to @wycats
s/browser/user agent/ and I'll agree with you. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_agent
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Replying to @TheAmazingRando
user agent implies arbitrary media types; the web (like it or not) is about web content, which is defined by web specs
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Replying to @wycats @TheAmazingRando
what you're interested in is the more abstract idea of hypermedia or REST, not the web.
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Replying to @wycats
I think that it's hypermedia that makes the web a “web”. I guess I'm misunderstanding what you mean by “web” in this context.
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Replying to @TheAmazingRando
that view of the web is too abstract -- making it so abstract loses track of the interop benefits of more concrete
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Replying to @wycats
and HAL and Cj and Siren and UBER and Mason
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Replying to @mamund @TheAmazingRando
being able to talk about "the media type used by the user agent that implements web standards" is useful.
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calling that thing "the web" doesn't seem like much of a stretch.
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