I'm really grateful for this conversation, as I've been wondering the same question for a while now.
Martin writes: > So far I didn't hear a good explanation why the page id causes you > troubles. Most of you are saying "it is ugly". Well it is kind of ugly. It is far less ugly than the 1.4-style "?wicket:interface=:1::::" URLs though. And after reading your and Igor's explanation, I understand better now why it's done this way, so thank you for that. As for why it causes troubles: I've done a handful of wicket projects for different clients in the past year, and I get asked about this by the project owners *every* *single* *time*. For projects where users log in, create accounts, etc, the stakeholders are generally willing to accept the URL param (though they grumble a little bit). But for projects where a significant portion of the app's functionality is exposed to "drive by" users, stakeholders won't typically compromise on the URL structure. Some of their concerns come down to simple aesthetics. But a common objection is "it's hurting our SEO". The stated SEO concerns are that: A. page request results in a 302 B. search engines don't like to index urls with query params (probably apocryphal, or at least no longer true) C. page analytics- you now need to normalize URLs against the "?N" param Some (perhaps all?) of the SEO issues might be addressable by link rel="canonical"; I haven't tested it yet against 1.5. > Case 3 is what the bots and not logged in users should see. Bots > don't use sessions so don't let them go in the stateful area of your > app. If I understand correctly, this means no Ajax components at all on "not logged in" pages. For a lot of sites that just plain won't work. Please correct me if I have misunderstood something. I have a 1.4 project whose migration to 1.5 has been on hold for a while, in part due to the URL changes we'll have to make. I'm weighing the benefits of this NoVersionMount that was proposed to see what potential side effects it might have. So far it looks like it will cause loss of Ajax state if the user reloads the page or hits the back button, but no different from what currently happens in 1.4. I think that's probably a reasonable tradeoff for some apps, as long as you're aware of it. One issue (raised elsewhere on this list recently) is how to use NoVersionMount with the home page, since it's not explicitly mounted in WicketApplication. -- View this message in context: http://apache-wicket.1842946.n4.nabble.com/I-don-t-want-url-page-count-parameter-localhost-8080-context-0-tp4481510p4506482.html Sent from the Users forum mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
