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HYDIN

HYDIN (HYperlinked Document Interchange Network) is a hypothetical alternative to the World Wide Web.

Like the World Wide Web, it offers a transport protocol and a markup language.

Motivation

  • Accessible, discoverable sites — through machine-readable resource maps and document info queries.
  • Client control over the page looks and rendering, a new plugin system that builds upon the ideas of user scripts and old browser addons.

Goals

  • Machine-readable and discoverable resouce maps (inspired by Gopher maps, but with a modern approach).
  • Extensible markup language.
  • Easy to bootstrap on top of the WWW.

Structure

  • HDTP — HYDIN Document Transfer Protocol.
  • Markup language — to be determined.
  • Client platform — to be determined.

Ideas

The HYDIN protocol is like:

  • HTTP: Similar set of methods and header syntax.
  • Gopher: it supports machine-readable resource maps.
  • The old shared hosting with tildes but better: protocol address (for connecting) and HYDIN location are separate concepts.

The HYDIN markup language is like:

  • HTML: similar syntax with tags.
  • XHTML: extensible with custom elements.

HYDIN browsers can delegate handling of custom elements to plugins, a bit like web components, but the user can decide what plugin to install and use by default.

Contributing

So far the project in a discussion stage, so any discussion is welcome.