Actually I like his idea for the reasons he outlined. I hope that this isn't too offtopic for the list. But your point about band-aiding a bad design is fair but I think his reasons for wanting the structure to be flexible now are reasonable also. If you take a look at his sites I think it shows some sense of good design.
I assume when he adds aliasing he'll also support the direct url so I don't see how he'll have problems with search engines later as they will key off the meta information and he'll simply support the urls or aliases produced by the search engines. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ken Egervari [eXtremePHP]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:32 PM Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP? > I have to agree with Robert. The 353.html approach, although easy to > implement for the programmers, violates a lot of sound principles in > information design. If you site is bookmarked and indexed by a search > engine, you are definitely going to have some problems (not to mention just > confusing the heck out of people). Now that you have planning to do > aliasing, you are just band-aiding a bad design. There could have been > better strategies to use from the beginning I would think though I won't go > into them here. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Rickard Öberg" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 8:17 AM > Subject: Re: [OS-webwork] Velocity or JSP? > > > > Robert Nicholson wrote: > > > What information is encoded in those URLS and why are they so cryptic? > I'm > > > just curoius about why you are using urls like that. > > > > As I said, the URL is the <page object id>.html. The reason is to allow > > users to move pages around in the site structure without messing up > > links and bookmarks. > > > > The next version will have support for optional human readable aliases > > though, so one can have e.g. "products.html" instead. > > > > /Rickard > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Opensymphony-webwork mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Opensymphony-webwork mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/opensymphony-webwork
