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Re: URLs without trailing slashes
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 28 Jan 2001 01:21:22 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Todd Lehman writes:
> In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Tom Stangl writes:
> > Sorry, your choices are the counterintuitive ones.
> > 1) I don't know what universe you live in, but in MINE, the bulk of sites on
> > the web translate http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch to
> > http://www.foo.com/bar/bletch/
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> Uh, Hello? That's precisely what I just said. I said the REASON that it's
> counterintuitive relative to most sites is precisely because of the above.
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> > 2) Member pages are the obvious problem here - you designed them wrong from
> > the start,
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> "Wrong"? LOL.
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> > and are covering by breaking a "convention" used by the majority
> > of sites.
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> It's just a different way of naming pages.
Different, yes... you could even say "unconventional", which is what Tom is
saying.
Unconventional is not alway "wrong". But when you break a convention you
should have a good reason to do so. Users not needing to remember to type
.ftx on the end of pages may or may not be a good enough reason.
At *this* point, it *is* convention here, and changing away from it might
wreak havoc on some that link in to ftx pages from elsewhere unless you put
another layer of cleverness in. Balance that against the nuisance factor
that the current scheme gives to everyone who has expectations set by the
rest of the 'web (rightly or wrongly)...
I have my opinion about the balance but I don't have the usage data you do
so your opinion is probably a bit less SWAG based.
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