me2c if you can rewrite http://yourserver/page so that it shows as http://yourpage/resource when page was the result of a redirect that would indeed finllay resolve the completely unacceptable situations where users are force to understand (and see in their browser bars) the distinction.
honestly the web has a single set of uris now: that of schema or so annotated page. so live with the idea (and useful software) or die chatting here :) wrt if we can hide back the confusion and claim that eheheh we knew all along this rewrite thing was coming then , i guess nice. Gio On Fri, Oct 14, 2011 at 1:08 PM, Hugh Glaser <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi. > My colleague, Don Cruickshank asked me if it was good practice to rewrite the > URI in the Address Bar to be the NIR, rather than the IR. > I was surprised, but he tells me that it is permitted in HTML5. > My response was "Er, yes, sounds great!" > > Finally we can get away from having to explain to users that the URL of the > document cannot be cut and pasted as the URI! > Yippeeee! > Don is about to make the MyExperiment site move to this, so that URIs such as > http://www.myexperiment.org/workflows/158.html will not show the ".html" > And if sites such as dbpedia were to adopt this, it would mean I no longer > make the mistake of doing things like "fbase:Italy owl:sameAs > http://dbpedia.org/page/Italy"; when I cut and paste or whatever, and would > find them in the wild a lot less. > Not to mention me making the same mistake when I use my own RKBExplorer IDs. > > This sort of seems non-controversial - and I don't think I have seen no > discussion of it here, either because it hasn't hit the radar, or it is a > http://dbpedia.org/page/Slam_dunk (sic). > > So is it? > > Cheers > -- > Hugh Glaser, > Web and Internet Science > Electronics and Computer Science, > University of Southampton, > Southampton SO17 1BJ > Work: +44 23 8059 3670, Fax: +44 23 8059 3045 > Mobile: +44 75 9533 4155 , Home: +44 23 8061 5652 > http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~hg/ > > > >
