My favorite quote from the article, “The World-Wide Web”, summed up this article quite well. “The Web does not yet meet its design goal as being a pool of knowledge that is as easy to update as to read.” The article has two main ideas to tell us what a W3 is and to tell us how the web is every growing and adapting.
Before I had never heard of the term W3 but the article defines it as several things including boundless information world where all items have a reference by which they can be retrieved, an address system, a network protocol, a markup language, and a body of data. The article explains these definition more in depth.
The second main point of the article was to discuss the development of W3 that are recent. As well as the future of W3 in technology. It points out how there is developments in technology that influence W3.
Before I had never heard of the term W3 but the article defines it as several things including boundless information world where all items have a reference by which they can be retrieved, an address system, a network protocol, a markup language, and a body of data. The article explains these definition more in depth.
The second main point of the article was to discuss the development of W3 that are recent. As well as the future of W3 in technology. It points out how there is developments in technology that influence W3.
I noticed the same quote and wondered if that abstract "design goal" had been meet with today's standards of how the World Wide Web (W3) is used. The article does go over some of the foundations of what makes the Web run, including protocols and languages, but what is interesting in today's lifestyle is that much of what the Web has to offer has been moving to mobile devices and to dedicated applications (apps) on these devices. People on their phones, for example, are visiting Facebook through the Facebook app, written for the operating system of the phone, and not through facebook.com, written with Web standards like what the article described. Web standards continue to evolve to incorporate more audio/visual and desktop-like elements, and an example of that is HTML5 versus Flash that has made tech news over the last year or so. W3 as a technology still has much to extend into, and its design continues to change to better serve its users.
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