UXfc — Consultation

Documentation status: reference — see Maturity and evidence.

The consultation intention describes the activity of reading or browsing an addressable resource in a given context, without making the rendering tool the definition of that activity.

Semantics

Consultation may target a page, document, application view, or remote resource. The functional contract concerns:

• the initial resource or address;
• the consultation context;
• navigation policy;
• optional history;
• load, resource-change, and failure events.

Possible incarnations

The same intention may be incarnated by a document viewer, browser frame, remote view, or another component able to present the resource.

Boundary

consultation does not mean “Web browser”. A browser is one possible incarnation; the intention remains renderer-independent.