>>>>> "ian" == Ian Bicking <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ian> Tim Berners-Lee wrote a good document about URL design, which I ian> can't find at the moment. It talks about why extensions aren't ian> a good idea for the URL. If someone remembers this and has a ian> link, I'd be curious to look at it again. It also had some ian> ideas about making namespaces related to date of publishing ian> (again to increase stability), an idea which I haven't been ian> able to come to terms with (i.e., I don't like the idea, yet I ian> don't know of a good alternative). I think extensions are a *terrible* idea for URLs. I have a site I want to move from PHP to Webware. No URLs should break. If I have ".php" in URLs, or vice versa, ".py", URLs will break. That's bad. I suspect, Ian, you were thinking of http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI The only extensions I use now are ".html" or ".xml" (very rarely); i.e., as general as possible. For what it's worth, full, general control over "URL space" is the one thing that's preventing me from using Webware for *everything* I do on the Web. Best, Kendall Clark PS--Anyone seen Cofax(.org)? I'm dreaming of a Webware port. That would be the bee's knees. _______________________________________________ Webware-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/webware-discuss
