OpenID21 items tagged “urls”
i am near (via) Inspired by wikinear.com and powered by FireEagle, currently just showing nearby pubs from OpenStreetMap but with more stuff planned. I love the URL scheme—pubs.iamnear.net. 
4th April 2008, 7:53 am
A proposal: email to URL mapping. Brad’s just too damn smart. A simple solution to mapping an e-mail address to an OpenID that takes advantage of existing technology (YADIS) and doesn’t adversely affect e-mail privacy. 
8th February 2008, 11:39 am
.aspx considered harmful. Jon Udell: “I guess I’m extra-sensitive to the .aspx thing now that I work for Microsoft, because I know that to folks outside the Microsoft ecosystem it screams: We don’t get the web.”—he goes on to mention that smart URL rewriting is thankfully built in to the upcoming ASP.NET MVC framework. 17th January 2008, 6:01 pm
Web design 2.0—it’s all about the resource and its URL. The fact that the BBC is now building things against this kind of theoretical basis is immensely exciting. 28th December 2007, 11:47 pm
sorl-thumbnail. This looks like a decent attempt at a generic Django thumbnailing service, but I’m always wary of code that allows URL hackers to create large numbers of files that will be cached to disk. UPDATE: My mistake, thumbnail creation can only be caused by template authors. 
27th November 2007, 7:17 pm
ASP.NET MVC Framework. This looks pretty good. It includes clean URL support that’s very similar to how Django does things (with a nice alternative syntax for developers who don’t like regular expressions). 22nd October 2007, 1:45 pm
Http-https transitions and relative URLs. Finally, a reason to use those weird protocol-relative URLs (//example.com/path and the like). 
18th October 2007, 11:57 am
WordPress 2.3: Canonical URLs. Fantastic to hear that WordPress 2.3 supports this, and that they picked the right terminology for it (I’ve called the same thing “disambiguated URLs” in the past). 27th September 2007, 2:03 pm
The biggest mistake I made in Leonardo was making “foo” and “foo/” mean the same thing.
— James Tauber 29th August 2007, 8:52 pm
Disambiguated URLs with Ruby on Rails. Using before_filter to remove trailing slashes and a few lines of lighttpd configuration to kill the www. 24th July 2007, 3:18 pm
Lacking a Strunk and White Elements of Style for URI namespace, we’ve made a mess of it. It’s long past time to grow up and recognize the serious importance of principled design in this infinitely large namespace.
— Jon Udell 24th May 2007, 4:38 pm
the.british.museum (via) Great URL. 20th May 2007, 10:12 pm
Encyclopedia of Life. Ambitious, well funded project to create a professionally maintained Wikipedia for species. I really hope they get their URL design right. 13th May 2007, 10:46 am
People don’t recognize how important URIs are. The notion that you have a huge, world-scale, information space, and that everything in it has an name and they’re all just short strings that you can paint on the side of a bus; that’s a new thing and a good thing.
— Tim Bray 2nd May 2007, 8:23 pm
Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin (via) Neat WordPress plugin that forces a redirect to an item’s permalink if the URL has any extra crud in it. 2nd March 2007, 12:49 am
.php? .cgi? .who-cares? J-P Stacey argues that “URLs need to be hackable by the developer as well as by the user”. There’s certainly room for improvement in keeping complex URL structures maintainable from a server-side developer’s perspective. 9th February 2007, 1:01 am
There’s an unfortunate side-effect to altogether eliminating the sub-domain name from your site URLs [...] Every cookie you may want to set for that site will automatically “bleed” down to *all* sub-domain-based websites you might want to add later.
— Már Örlygsson 6th February 2007, 12:01 am
Adam Vandenberg on disambiguated URLs. He was fighting for cache-friendly URLs at Encarta Online way back in 1998. 4th February 2007, 5:18 pm
www. is deprecated. I wouldn’t go as far to say avoid www—just as long as you pick one and redirect the other. 4th February 2007, 2 pm
Why you should be using disambiguated URLs
Good URLs are important. The best URLs are readable, reliable and hackable. [... 553 words]
How many taps in a URL? Designing URLs for entry on a mobile phone. 12th December 2006, 12:28 pm
