Moshe Weitzman <weitzman@tejasa.com> Wed, 23 Mar 2005 10:11:00
can we not keep on supporting the existing, non ambigous urls. these urls are great, but not appropriate for certain links. also, some people insist on localizing their links which is insanity but there you go ...
I'm not sure what to say here. The whole REST world is moving towards meaningful URLs, and they have a big advantage in that a 3rd party system can create them speculatively, so as long as I know the scheme I can construct http://www.drupal.org/taxonomy/vterm/tags/photo without knowing if "photo" is used or not. The other factor is that Technorati tags uses the final directory (/photo) to scrape the tag information out. With every folksonomy scheme doing the same thing so that they can be compatible with technorati. Similarly with things like Wikipedia. eg http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Horses I don't want to break the existing Drupal scheme. But I do want to use a text based URL scheme as well. This was one of the reasons why I started building this entirely in contrib and adding extra links to the node so that folksonomy was entirely separate from taxonomy both in the code and in the UI. -- Julian Bond Email&MSM: julian.bond at voidstar.com Webmaster: http://www.ecademy.com/ Personal WebLog: http://www.voidstar.com/ M: +44 (0)77 5907 2173 T: +44 (0)192 0412 433 S: callto://julian.bond/