November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
240 pages
5h 38m
English
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Chapter 1. Understanding Hypermedia
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
- Nehru
Designing scalable, flexible implementations that live on the web relies on many concepts, technologies, and implementation details. Understanding the history behind the way the World Wide Web (WWW) works today and the various standards and practices created to support it is an essential part of developing skills as a web architect and hypermedia designer.
In addition to understanding the technologies behind the Web, designers also need to be aware of the differences between implementing applications on a distributed network that leverages coarse-grained message protocols like HTTP that span multiple platforms, programming languages, and storage systems, and more traditional local networked applications where most components in the network share similar storage, programming, and operating details. Programming for distributed hypermedia environments usually means that message transfers must carry more than just data; they must carry additional information including metadata and higher-level application flow control options. The Web thrives on this style of rich hypermedia, and it is important to design APIs that support this method of sharing understanding of the data sent between network participants.
The way in which hypermedia information is shared varies between data formats, but the actual hypermedia concepts—links, templated queries, idempotent ...
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