At Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:41:09 -0600, Adam Taft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Really?? That's weird. Wrong even? > > I mean, if you can (or should) use commas, we'd have urls like this: > > /cars,ford,truck,f-series,f150,2007 > > instead of > > /cars/ford/truck/f-series/f150/2007
That is a hierarchy, so it should use slashes. Longitude,latitude is not a hierarchy but a tuple, and they suggest for this commas. > I like the second (with slashes) because it's somewhat a metaphor for > traditional folders on a hard drive. Which is why it's also congruent > with a web server serving a static folder hierarchy. > > Ultimately, it doesn't matter what your delimiter is. I just think > slashes seem more intuitive for this type of "ordered" or > "hierarchical" usage. It’s not commas vs. slashes: they have different meanings (according to the RWS book). best, Erik Hetzner ;; Erik Hetzner, California Digital Library ;; gnupg key id: 1024D/01DB07E3
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