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karlcow / webarch

How to explain in simple terms Web Architecture and HTTP for UX, marketing, front-end developers, etc.

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Content Title and URIs #2

Open karlcow opened 13 years ago

karlcow commented 13 years ago

Issue explanation

It is usually a bad idea to automatically create URIs from the Content Title. It makes a more complex system to manage. Some of the issues are

Managing international characters
Managing title changes in the URI (301)
Truncation of "readable" URIs because the title is too long

olivierthereaux commented 13 years ago

A take on "web-scale identifiers": http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/radiolabs/2008/06/the_simple_joys_of_webscale_id.shtml

olivierthereaux commented 13 years ago

On the subject of "web-scale URIs", what does it mean for the future of the web that our culture and its technological needs (e.g typing URIs) lead to the widespread need for all important URIs to be "top level URIs", i.e. http://exmplr.com/foo ?