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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by afpx on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:12PM (#18101860)
I hope there’s a lot more than that. I mean, they claim that they’ve been working on it for 15 years.

“Solid has taken 15 years of development work to finally deliver this.”

I probably missed something, but I didn’t see mention of Solid being taken through a standards body, either (even his own one). Web protocols were standardized early and were royalty free, with working prototypes. That helped lead to quick adoption.

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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by nabla9 on Saturday September 29, 2018 @04:13PM (#18102543)
As far as I see, solid is just bunch of existing standards bundled together. Especially RDF and things related to it.

The w3.org site describing solid is actually more readable: https://www.w3.org/community/rww/wiki/SoLiD

See also https://www.w3.org/DesignIssues/LinkedData.html

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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by juancampa on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:36PM (#18101996)
IMO it's a waste of time to try to standardize something that hasn't proven its value yet. Leads to a design-by-committee situation (committee should be spelled ccoommeettii)
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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by rst on Saturday September 29, 2018 @07:12PM (#18103520)
The initial W3 code releases from CERN likewise preceded any formal standardization effort. They came with documentation defining the protocols and data formats (albeit loosely), but those were project documents generated internally, and not elaborated or ratified by any formal standards body.
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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by imhoguy on Saturday September 29, 2018 @02:53PM (#18102099)
To me it looks like as another incarnation of semantic web stuff.
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Re:Solid – Reshape the web as we know it by apatters on Sunday September 30, 2018 @12:46AM (#18104509)
This was my first impression too. Tim and a certain contingency have always wanted that stuff to take off, but the benefits have never been clear enough to make it happen. It's an easy concept to overengineer. The Web took off because it was simple. Anyone could author a rich document in HTML and share it just by sticking it in a folder and passing around the link. The Web now gets harder by the day, so history just might repeat itself sooner or later.

I think Solid needs to start with cleaning up their communications as the whole thing is hard to understand.

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