Re: [WSG] Content negotiated links: why so bad?

2007-03-02 Thread TuteC
That's what I do, and it's really swift of doing, even though you never saw an htaccess file. I use it, there are some disadvantages on server load but in my projects, I don't care. Well, it works as expected. Best regards, Eugenio Costa. On 3/1/07, Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or

Re: [WSG] Content negotiated links: why so bad?

2007-03-01 Thread Kenny Graham
The webmaster I'm talking to is responsible for URLs that end like this *.cfm?doc_id=n ... and thinks it's perfectly acceptable In that case, the webmaster is making dynamically generated pages. URLs that end like that are necessary, because they're used to pass variables to the page. The

Re: [WSG] Content negotiated links: why so bad?

2007-03-01 Thread Adrian Lynch
On 01/03/2007, at 11:36 AM, Kenny Graham wrote: The webmaster I'm talking to is responsible for URLs that end like this *.cfm?doc_id=n ... and thinks it's perfectly acceptable . Beyond that, any way to get rid of the ?doc_id=n and such at the ends of the URLs would require an

[WSG] Content negotiated links: why so bad?

2007-02-28 Thread libwebdev
Hi folks, I followed a recent thread here on how people manage their links, and I made a request to our organisation's webmaster to allow MultiViews for my department's website (which I manage, and which is part of a large public organisation). I have a penchant for short, usable URLs that don't

Re: [WSG] Content negotiated links: why so bad?

2007-02-28 Thread Breton Slivka
On 01/03/2007, at 9:31 AM, libwebdev wrote: Hi folks, I followed a recent thread here on how people manage their links, and I made a request to our organisation's webmaster to allow MultiViews for my department's website (which I manage, and which is part of a large public

Re: [WSG] Content negotiated links: why so bad?

2007-02-28 Thread libwebdev
I appreciate your comments, Breton, thank you. At 11:19 AM 1/03/2007 +1100, Breton Slivka wrote: Given the structure of the department site, I am not sure that there is any great advantage to be gained.' what special qualities of the site's structure is he talking about here? No special

Re: [WSG] Content negotiated links: why so bad?

2007-02-28 Thread Ben Buchanan
organisation). I have a penchant for short, usable URLs that don't show file names, and would like to link to /mydept/training/ rather than /mydept/training.htm. Sounds a lot like you'll get resistance, although I agree that not showing extensions has some benefits. I'd shoot for a middle of