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Re: URLs without trailing slashes
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lugnet.admin.general
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Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:09:32 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Tom Stangl writes:
> > > 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.
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> A different way of naming pages that seems wrong to EVERY SINGLE person
> I've talked to. Doesn't that tell you something?
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 novel approaches and are
afraid of anything they find just a bit too unfamiliar.
It tells me that they've probably never encountered a simple and elegant
page-naming system like Wiki:
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LazyEvaluationAndTransactionSemantics
It tells me that they've definitely never encountered a simple and elegant
page-naming system like Manila:
http://manila.userland.com/browserBased
http://frontier.userland.com/pricing
http://manilanewbies.userland.com/usersguide/detailedtoc
It tells me that they've probably never encountered a simple and elegant
page-naming system like IMDb:
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Malkovich,+John
http://us.imdb.com/Name?Dafoe,+Willem
And it tells me they've definitely never encountered anything like this:
http://www.google.com/linux <--- works!
http://www.google.com/linux/ <--- fails!
Or this:
http://us.imdb.com/Showtimes/ <--- works
http://us.imdb.com/Showtimes <--- also works, and *doesn't* forward!
GEE, imagine THAT! There are actually OTHER sites out there -- big sites --
that don't use your so-called "standard" URL convention. Oh my God, what's
the world coming to?! Other sites that don't use ".html" on the end of the
URLs! Other sites that break the trailing-slash convention! Oh my God, the
sky is falling!!!
:-/
> 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".
I'll grant you that it's counterintuitive if you're unfortunate enough never
to have been exposed to a modern page content system or if you still in this
day and age believe that the only good webpage URL is a URL that ends in "/",
".html", ".htm", or ".asp".
Really, I think the world moved beyond old-school URLs two years ago.
--Todd
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