Writable web
The Writeable Web or writable Web is an original vision of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee . Every (authorized) user should be able to publish and correct content, just as every (authorized) user should be able to read it: “[…] anyone (authorized) should be able to publish and correct information, and anyone (authorized) should be able to read it " .
concept
The original concept of the Writable Web was to use a combined browser / editor ; the reference implementation of the W3C , Amaya , still implements this form of bidirectional communication in software today. In terms of communication theory, this concept is based on ideas of an emancipatory use of media, which had already been formulated in the 30s ( Brecht's radio theory ) and 70s ( Enzensberger's media construction kit ), but were never technically implemented on a larger scale.
From the mid-1990s, however, the World Wide Web was effectively implemented primarily as a read-only system with predominantly unidirectional communication. H. Websites could only be changed by the operator (see mass medium ). Soon, however, the first interactive applications such as web-based annotation systems , forums , weblogs , content management systems and wikis as well as special applications such as Hyper-G or Hyperwave , which allowed content to be changed within the medium itself and thus a certain degree of interactivity , emerged .
The “anyone can edit anything” concept of wikis comes very close to Berners-Lee's original vision. However, instead of a full-fledged WYSIWYG browser / editor client, only a simple browser-based editing interface is usually used.
Individual evidence
See also
literature
- Tim Berners-Lee : Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web . HarperCollins, New York 1999.
Web links
- Boutell.com: What was the first web browser? (English)
- Blooberry.com: Browser Timelines (English)
- mprove.de: Hyper-G / HyperWave (English)
- w3.org: W3C's Editor / Browser (English)