It'd be nice if openguides.org/London/ worked as well as openguides.org/london/
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On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:52:19AM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
It'd be nice if openguides.org/London/ worked as well as openguides.org/london/
Why?
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:43:45PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:52:19AM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
It'd be nice if openguides.org/London/ worked as well as openguides.org/london/
Why?
(1) Why not?
(2) Because the default capitalisation of the name of the place is the one people are most likely to try first.
Roger
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:47:46PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
It'd be nice if openguides.org/London/ worked as well as openguides.org/london/
Why?
(1) Why not?
Because you only need one URI.
(2) Because the default capitalisation of the name of the place is the one people are most likely to try first.
Why would people be typing in city names at random? If they don't check the canonical list on openguides.org, then they might as well go shoot at the moon for all the good it will do them.
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:59:29PM +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
Because you only need one URI.
So you only tell people about one of them.
Why would people be typing in city names at random? If they don't check the canonical list on openguides.org, then they might as well go shoot at the moon for all the good it will do them.
I don't have a bookmark for OpenGuides, because it used to be at a URL I could remember. I type in "openguides.org/London/". Then I curse and edit it.
I do this pretty much every time I want to look at the site.
Roger
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 01:03:46PM +0100, Roger Burton West wrote:
Because you only need one URI.
So you only tell people about one of them.
No matter how hard you try not to let it happen, any "secret" URL *will* get into search engines, and then you're in for a whole barrel of fun.
I don't have a bookmark for OpenGuides, because it used to be at a URL I could remember. I type in "openguides.org/London/". Then I curse and edit it.
I do this pretty much every time I want to look at the site.
I'm sorry, but if I were to make with parallel URLs for everyone's personal muscle-memory quirk, then things would become very tiresome for me very quickly.
On 02/09/2003 at 12:43 +0100, Earle Martin wrote:
On Mon, Aug 04, 2003 at 11:52:19AM +0100, Paul Mison wrote:
It'd be nice if openguides.org/London/ worked as well as openguides.org/london/
Why?
I've typed the former instead of the latter and got a Not Found. Admittedly it's probably only me that does that, but still, if it's not hard to fix, it seemed like a nice idea.
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