Posted by John Dunlop on 01/26/08 08:05

Rik Wasmus:

> However, pusblishing descriptive URLs is better then obscure
> ones:http://www.example.com/mathematics/operators/laplace-transform
> vs.http://www.example.com/?topicid=123abcfoo

Yes, there is indeed a balance to be struck between length and
descriptiveness. I suppose my remark was an "all else being equal"
one.

I say: designing URLs is a trade-off between principles such as
length, meaningfulnes, rememberability, typability and hackability;
persistence stands alone in that it should not be compromised.

By the way,

http://example.com/maths/operators/laplace-transform
http://example.com/math/ops/laplace-transform

--
Jock

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