ISSUE-77: Section 5.3.4 Thematic Consistency
Section 5.3.4 Thematic Consistency
- State:
- CLOSED
- Product:
- Best Practices Document
- Raised by:
- Jo Rabin
- Opened on:
- 2005-11-22
- Description:
- This has been discussed before but neither Dan nor I can find any reference to
an issue or to an action or any discussion in the minutes of any meeting. But we
both remember discussions about the need to be able to pass bookmarks around and
have some meaningful experience on a device other than the one on which the
bookmark was captured.
The two issues are:
a. The url may not correspond to a node in the navigation heirarchy that exists
for the requesting device.
b. The url may have been decorated for session management and/or other purposes.
The current text is rather opaque and does not make it clear what we are droning
on about.
Current Text
5.3.4.1 What it means
The representation of a URI (the page that is delivered when a device accesses a
URI) may not look the same or contain identical content when accessed from
different devices, because in the interests of usable site navigation the
pagination may be different for different devices and in the in order to use
capabilities of different devices appropriately it may look different.
However, an important principle of One Web [link] is that a URI should be usable
on any device. So if a user of one device sends a bookmark, or link, to another
user that does not have the same device, their intention in sending that URI
must be respected and the second user should be presented with information that
the first user had intended to communicate.
5.3.4.2 How to do it
See [Techniques] for a discussion of how to locate an appropriate point in a
site\'s navigation structure when the requested URI does not match a location in
the structure that is appropriate to the client making the request.
Proposed Text
5.3.4.1 What it means
This is a realization of the One Web principle, whereby content should be
accessible on a range of devices irrespective of differences in presentation
capabilities. Web sites may paginate their content in various ways corresponding
to differences in device characteristics; therefore the navigation structure of
the site, and possibly its technical realization, may vary according to the
device class that is being served.
However, a bookmark captured on one device should be usable on another different
type of device even if it does not yield exactly the same experience. In other
words the bookmarked page (as denoted by the URI) may not be appropriate for
devices other than the one it was captured on.
In addition, URIs may be decorated to provide session or other information.
5.3.4.2 How to do it
See [Techniques] for a discussion of how to locate an appropriate point in a
site\'s navigation structure when the requested URI does not match a location in
the structure that is appropriate to the client making the request.
If the URI is decorated with session information that is no longer current then
the user should be directed to a point in the navigation hierarchy that is
appropriate to their device, in order to establish appropriate session and other
parameters.
- Related Actions Items:
- No related actions
- Related emails:
- [minutes] Thu Nov 24 teleconference (from dom@w3.org on 2005-11-24)
- ISSUE-77: Section 5.3.4 Thematic Consistency (from dean+cgi@w3.org on 2005-11-22)
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