Le 2007-06-15 à 19:49, Phil Mocek a écrit :
Specifically, what happens if I change the page URL to PHP
Markdown Extra some day?
You'll create many broken links, causing trouble for everyone
who has ever linked to your page. Please don't do that.
Redirection can handle older links fine. The question is: will people
begin to use the new URL as the profile? will tools need to be aware
the two URLs are aliases? Note that this is already a problem since
there is *two* URLs for that page, one with "www" in the domain and
one without.
The general idea is that the name is likely to be meaningful longer
than the URL. I can't guaranty the URL will hold indefinitely; bad
things happen sometime. But Markdown Extra, the syntax's name,
already has it's own [Wikipedia entry][1]. It's also much easier to
remember "Markdown Extra" -- or "text/x-markdown.extra" -- than a URL
and the syntax for writing the profile attribute in the MIME type.
[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown_Extra
If you really want a unique and permanent URI, I can probably arrange
things so that something like this:
http://michelf.com/ref/markdown-extra
can refer to the relevant documents, as long as I maintain my site.
That'd be mostly the same as what the W3C does for XML namespaces:
put a document at that URL that points to the related specifications.
But as I said, I don't really see the point in using a URL: it's much
more cumbersome for not much added benefit.
Michel Fortin
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http://www.michelf.com/
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