On 11/5/07, George Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-11-05 at 17:52 +0000, Tom Loosemore wrote: > > Using TinyUrl is a symptom of poorly designed urls... > > It is? Lots of sites use URLs to pass data, on top of pointing at files > on servers. > > The more complex the data, the more use it might have - the longer the > URL gets - eg: > > http://journeyplanner.tfl.gov.uk/user/XSLT_TRIP_REQUEST2?language=en&sessionID=JP26_1355129797&requestID=2&tripSelector1=1&itdLPxx_view=detail&tripSelection=on&command=nop&calculateDistance=1 > > In case Tom's forgotten how to get to TVC from BH....
Perhaps not the best example - that link breaks, because it refers to a specific session. But if you're talking well-designed URLs for journey planning, see: http://www.traintimes.org.uk/cardiff/birmingham/8:00 - martin - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
