Thoughts on making a "Web of Data" instead of a "Web of Pages", and how that might let us take a step away from the dominance of large, complicated browsers.
Web bloat isn’t a knowledge problem | Christian Heilmann
There is a consensus among all browser makers and lovers of the web: the current state of the web is a mess. The average web page is 2.4 megabyte big and has over 200 requests.
Freeing the Web from the Browser | reinterpretcast.com
The Web is, without a doubt, the most powerful research tool currently available to man. No longer must researchers comb through endless indices and catalogues to find what they are looking for. Instead, hyperlinks allow users to associatively explore rich interconnected structures of information with ease. In just a few clicks, it is possible to navigate through a vast global space of information comprising documents on virtually any subject.
WDC - RDFa, Microdata, and Microformat Data Sets
More and more websites have started to embed structured data describing products, people, organizations, places, and events into their HTML pages using markup standards such as Microdata, JSON-LD, RDFa, and Microformats. The Web Data Commons project extracts this data from several billion web pages. So far the project provides 12 different data set releases extracted from the Common Crawls 2010 to 2023. The project provides the extracted data for download and publishes statistics about the deployment of the different formats.
The HotJava Browser: A White Paper
Browsers allow people to treat the data spread across the Internet as a cohesive whole. Web browsers integrate the function of fetching the data with figuring out what it is and displaying it. One of the most important file types browsers understand is the hypertext markup language (HTML). HTML allows text data objects to embed simple formatting information and references to other objects.
web browser
A web browser is a client program for accessing the World Wide Web. Its main feature is the loading of HTML pages over HTTP(S) connections and rendering them. There are moderate-sized web browsers as well as huge and bloated ones.
Common Crawl - Open Repository of Web Crawl Data
We build and maintain an open repository of web crawl data that can be accessed and analyzed by anyone.
Information Architecture. Basics for Designers.
The World Wide Web contains a tremendous amount of information which is hard to imagine unstructured because a human brain wouldn’t be able…
Distilling The Moat
Whisky Still The original function of a Web server was to respond to queries by revealing the appropriate part of their internal data. This...
The State of the Web at Google I/O 2018
The web is a global treasure, and has many strengths we all enjoy. It is a distribution platform like no other, providing people around the ...
Hypermedia Systems
The revolutionary ideas that empowered the Web. A simpler approach to building applications on the Web and beyond with htmx and Hyperview. Enhancing web applications without using SPA frameworks.
The Oxymoron of “Data-Driven Innovation”
Once upon a time, in the dawn of the internet era, web products came from college dudes. The dudes were almost always wealthy and well-connected, but they weren’t usually market-savvy. These …
Semble — Make sense of the web, together
A place for mapping the web, connecting ideas, and building shared knowledge.
I've been thinking about the beauty of open data and how the AT Protocol and wider Atmosphere ecosystem has been recapturing that open data environment that once defined the web. It really does feel special. vale.rocks/posts/atproto-ethos #atproto #ATProtocol
The AT Protocol Harkens An Old Web Ethos
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