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Re: URLs without trailing slashes
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 28 Jan 2001 06:44:04 GMT
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Todd Lehman wrote:
> 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.
A different way of naming pages that seems wrong to EVERY SINGLE person I've
talked to. Doesn't that tell you something? If the UI is counterintuitive,
change the UI if possible, don't try to change the users. In this case, changing
the UI is as simple as moving back to the "standard".
--
Tom Stangl
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| (...) Except one. (Todd). Grin... Of course, you work for Netscape. What do *you* know about how the web is supposed to work? I mean, it's not like your company did anything to popularise browsers, turn standards into practice, or make one of the (...) (24 years ago, 28-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
| | | Re: URLs without trailing slashes
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| (...) Heh. Well, it tells me several things! It tells me that the people you've talked to are closed-minded, impatient, unimaginative, feeble, unalert individuals; that they are perpetually either unable or unwilling to understand and appreciate (...) (24 years ago, 29-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.general)
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