On 7/18/06, Derek Wright <drupal@dwwright.net> wrote:
Looking through the maasive use of the path.module and the mass_url.module we can say people do want fancy _and_ easy to remember url's..
that would be a complete nightmare for issue nodes, since the titles can change all the time, yet people need easy to paste, unique URLs to refer to issues with.
How often do titles change? So asks the guy who avoids using the title in URL aliases because he changes titles.
also, titles can contain a lot of characters that aren't valid URLs...
there's a reason path.module and mass_url.module are in contrib... not everyone wants that behavior (for good reason). personally, leaving things as /node/X by default (with optional aliases where desired) is sort of like having your site automatically filtered through tinyurl.com. ;)
path.module is in core, mass_url hasn't had a checkin for over a year: http://cvs.drupal.org/viewcvs/drupal/contributions/modules/mass_url/mass_url... Did you mean the Pathauto module? I've been trying to think of a way to have short e-mail-friendly URLs redirect automatically to their long, informative bretheren. I think TinyURL and their clones are useful only (and yes, only) when saying URLs in voice conversation. Otherwise we say "here, I'm sending you a link" while in voice conversation or just URL-slap in IM or IRC, and it's the full link while TinyURL-like services don't tell you where you're going, making the reader wary of clicking on it. (Of course it takes a discussion about URL aliases to get me to de-lurk.) -- Richard Eriksson http://www.bryght.com/