Comments on: Help Expose the URLs that Suck! http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/ Advocating User-Centered URL Design Fri, 03 Jun 2011 05:01:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Ben Francis http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-113966 Ben Francis Sun, 21 Dec 2008 14:46:05 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-113966 Namespaces ought to be included in this initiative, too. Namespaces are hierarchical organizations of programming code. For example, Microsoft has a namespace called "System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart". Let's count. "Web" is stated FOUR times and "Part" appears twice. I guess System.Web.Parts would have been too easy. If they had to keep the hierarchy, then at least go with "System.Web.UI.Controls.Parts" -- Parts that are Web User Interface Controls. Simple. Elegant. Beautiful. Namespaces ought to be included in this initiative, too. Namespaces are hierarchical organizations of programming code. For example, Microsoft has a namespace called “System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts.WebPart”.

Let’s count. “Web” is stated FOUR times and “Part” appears twice. I guess System.Web.Parts would have been too easy.

If they had to keep the hierarchy, then at least go with “System.Web.UI.Controls.Parts” — Parts that are Web User Interface Controls.

Simple. Elegant. Beautiful.

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]]> By: Web Things, by Mark Baker » Blog Archive » links for 2007-01-18 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-557 Web Things, by Mark Baker » Blog Archive » links for 2007-01-18 Thu, 18 Jan 2007 05:26:41 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-557 [...] Help Expose the URLs that Suck! Fun! But be careful with those URLs that delete stuff (on a GET)! (tags: uri url) [...] [...] Help Expose the URLs that Suck! Fun! But be careful with those URLs that delete stuff (on a GET)! (tags: uri url) [...]

]]> By: Mike Schinkel http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-556 Mike Schinkel Thu, 18 Jan 2007 03:46:32 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-556 Jimy: Totally agree! Thanks! Jimy: Totally agree! Thanks!

]]> By: Jimy Joshi http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-555 Jimy Joshi Thu, 18 Jan 2007 01:36:10 +0000 http://blog.welldesignedurls.org/2007/01/17/expose-urls-that-suck/#comment-555 in search of a sucky url, i ended up on ebay. this url does not really qualify to be sucky on the first look of it but seems like ebay has done away with use of query parameters to have a "clean" url. that is so not cool bro. <a href="http://cgi.ebay.com/2GB-Black-MP3-MP4-Media-Player-Photo-Video-FM-1-5-LCD_W0QQitemZ230080080687QQihZ013QQcategoryZ73839QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem" rel="nofollow"> http://cgi.ebay.com/2GB-Black-MP3-MP4-Media-Player-Photo-Video-FM-1-5-LCD_W0QQitemZ230080080687QQihZ013QQcategoryZ73839QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem</a> in search of a sucky url, i ended up on ebay. this url does not really qualify to be sucky on the first look of it but seems like ebay has done away with use of query parameters to have a “clean” url. that is so not cool bro.

http://cgi.ebay.com/2GB-Black-MP3-MP4-Media-Player-Photo-Video-FM-1-5-LCD_W0QQitemZ230080080687QQihZ013QQcategoryZ73839QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

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