Archive for Thursday 10 October, 2002
Ned Batchelder was part of the team that wrote the original Domino server. He also has a weblog. In it, he recently Reader's Digest. It's a Domino site but they've kept the URLs simple (.html instead of .nsf) so as not to confuse the "silver surfers". For example, this page:
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/misc/pfaq.htm
Is actually just the following page (where, using Apache as the web server, they have masked the URL):
http://www.readersdigest.co.uk/rd/rduk_misc.nsf/$BouncerNormal/pfaq.htm
Taking this masking one step further, I read on Simon Willison's blog today a related post about keeping URLs logical when using PHP with Apache. When I get round to converting this site to PHP it means that I can easily create friendly and logical URLs. Such that:
http://www.codestore.net/A55692/store.nsf/unid/EPSD-4XYGZL?OpenDocument
Becomes:
http://www.codestore.net/articles/EPSD-4XYGZL
And:http://www.codestore.net/A55692/store.nsf/unid/BLOG-20021008?OpenDocument
Becomes:
http://www.codestore.net/blogs/2002/10/08
And:http://www.codestore.net/A55692/store.nsf/area?OpenView&Count=10&RestrictToCategory=JavaScript
Becomes:
http://www.codestore.net/articles/JavaScript
Shall leave it up to you lot to decide which are the more logical...
