On Feb 17, 2008 4:13 PM, Dan Kegel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> People need to be able to guess the URL. >> We should be able to look up 'adobe-premiere' and get '128'. >> So maybe http://appdb.winehq.org/app/adobe-premiere.html > > I don't think that would work all that well. > As-is AppDB having all sorts of problem with it's search function. > You want to break all the links as well?
No, of course not. All the existing URLs should remain valid. > How about games with a huge long name? > Like "Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 1.x". http://appdb.winehq.org/app/command-conquer-3-tiberium-wars/ doesn't sound too bad, actually. And if somebody types in an ambiguous URL, like http://appdb.winehq.org/app/command-conquer they should get a list of matching apps. So this is kind of like a search function rather than a unique ID. The difference being that apps would normally be displayed at their shortest unique human-readable URL rather than by ID #. This may have an obscure but important benefit: I read on the web somewhere that it boosts search engine rankings. (Not that I'd know; I'm way away from that part of google.) - Dan
