Hi all: I've been doing a lot of research on URLs and the related topics of REST and Web Architecture lately. To date I've been written significant content to ...
Hi all: As I've been crytalizing my prior thoughts on URLs during my research it's become clear I need to explain my intended focus for the Well Designed URLs ...
To all: One of the ways I've planned to use http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/ and this mailing list is to develop Best Practices related to URL-centered URL ...
Hi all: As mentioned in an earlier email I've posted some not-yet fully researched thoughts on the wiki[1]. My thoughts[2] on "File Extensions" attracted some ...
Someone anonymously posted the following to the wiki at http://wiki.welldesignedurls.org/Talk:Principles#Extensions_Define_Content You write: "HTML not .ASPX,...
File extensions play an important role in some operating systems, but are largely irrelevant on the Web because media types play essentially the same role....
... File extensions can come into play when a client requests a resource. For example, when opening a URL with a JavaScript XMLHttpRequest call, the file...
Rob .
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Dec 14, 2006 5:09 pm
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... The approach of the microformats community is potentially worth adopting for the well designed urls project (http://microformats.org/about/): "microformats...
Rob .
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Dec 14, 2006 5:36 pm
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... That's fine if you're a publisher and want to manage your resources that way. But it's not for everybody, so it couldn't possibly be a best practice....
Hi, My name is Craig Williamson. I posted the original comment anonymously. Sorry for not following the rules but I did not see them and your system did not...
... Though using the file extension in this manner is "a practice" currently in use on the web. Possibly we can adopt the microformats' approach: "Instead of...
Rob .
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Dec 15, 2006 12:15 pm
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... Yes, I think so; use redirects. So that GET on your first URI could return a 302 or 307 to the .js resource ... which could also be elsewhere e.g....
Rob: Thanks for the suggestions. ... Don't know if you know this, but I participated heavily for several months on the microformat mailing list. Frankly, I...
I've had a longstanding desire to research the best way to design URLs for multilingual web sites and it has always bothered me to see wildly differing...
I recently read Ben Coffey's "Useful URLs" publication [1] and thoroughly enjoyed the experience. I agree with nearly all that is said with a few notable...
... Not at all, there are many of us who care![1]. However, I think the percentage of web professionals that are even aware of URL design is currently very...
Since I'm on a roll, I'll open the discussion on this subject as well. It was re-sparked in my mind from one of Mike's blog posts [1]. This issue affects...
... Ben is super sharp [1] and he did a great job with his "Useful URLs" ebook. ... However I, like you, tend to disagree with Ben slightly on a few topics....
... These are great questions, and ones I'd love to see patterns and best practices established for. Point of note though on [2], I started that and am...
... Thanks for your article. :-) Some comments... I agree with the principle that using POST as a form method purely to generate "useful URLs" is inadvisable....
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Feb 4, 2007 11:22 am
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... I have heard this idea expressed before and now again that I've read Ben's post, but I think it falls short in at least two specific ways. First, it fails...
... I've done a lot of research on URLs/URIs and have not come across a concept of a URL-as-GUID "test." I also just googled for it (as well as for "URI as ...
[I forgot to reply to the list; sorry about that] ... From: Ben Coffey <me@...> Date: 04-Feb-2007 19:19 Subject: Re: [welldesignedurls] Should Useful...
Ben Coffey
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Hello, We are getting ready to migrate an asp application to asp.net and we have used the recommendations for URL-rewriting on the ScottGu's blog post at ...
Hi Josh: I know you probably don't want to consider this, but rather than Migrating from ASP to ASP.NET, have you considered migrating to PHP? I count myself...
Mike, thank you for the detailed repsonse and suggestions. As for moving to PHP, that will have to come in a future release :) This application is built on top...
... Note that advocacy for PHP was simply that I feel PHP is a better solution that ASP.NET with WebForms, but then IMO it is hard to do worse than using ...
http://wiki.welldesignedurls.org/Main_Page says Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting T_OLD_FUNCTION or T_FUNCTION or T_VAR or '}' in ...
Yeah. Unfortunately spammers got to it and I haven't had time fix it. And since I wasn't able to find anyone who appreciated the topic enough to pay for...