let's look at media distribution specifically. a link to a video file would be better served if it were not in some cryptic url format that makes zero reference to that video file.
this being my opinion.... from my perception.... based on logic that I own.
so I wont speak to the broad 'non-problem' you are speaking of.
because i dont apply this opinion to any arbitrary url.... only urls to downloadable files beyond native web viewable files....
it's like this.... tell me if including the media file name, as i suggest, breaks anything. tell me if it makes a url worse. tell me that it makes no sense to include the file name. tell me something to convince me that this suggestion is illogical without telling me 'its not a problem so why fix it'.
because there are many non-problems that are still illogical.
again i'll reference iTunes xml channel image tag when RSS already provides it.
thats a non-problem that is illogical.
so, i am saying... fix the logic, not 'the non-problem'.
need i point out again that i do understand that this is not a technical problem?
should i state again that i know feedburner, in this example, is not doing anything technically wrong? i know. i know. it still lacks logic. that my complaint. agrue that point if you care to. because the rest of it, i wont argue (again to reiterate).
sull
On 3/17/06, Andreas Haugstrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 04:35:14 +0100, Michael Sullivan
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> i cant argue against that. which is why i have'nt ;-)
> my focus is on if/how a masked url redirect should be laid out.
> if the url is a direct media location, i dont think its ludicrous to
> suggest
> that the filename reside in the url instead of replacing it with a fake
> filename format etc.
But that's so contrary to the web. Why should you, I and everyone else
spend time and resources trying to solve a problem that doesn't exists?
I don't hear any complaints that the URL
http://www.solitude.dk/archives/20060310-1630/ doesn't contain a filename.
Should I be using http://www.solitude.dk/showentry.php?id=20060310-1630
instead so you can see the filename of the script? I don't get why you
want to disallow clean URLs for media files.
URLs are arbitrary, that's fundemental to the web. If you want to change
that you better have a damn good reason. I haven't heard that reason yet,
since you're trying to solve a problem that don't exist.
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