15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
6:51 p.m.
Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
I disagree. URI design is crucial, although some don't give much
importance to it. I'd rather we sacrifice shortness for meaning. Given
that URLs are already long, there's no need to reduce just a few parts
to save 8 bytes. There's always purl, tinyrl and other services for this.
--
Sergiu Dumitriu
http://purl.org/net/sergiu/
Note that I don't know what are the REST best
practices. I'm jut
noticing the inconsistency.
URI design is not that important (as long as the hypermedia constraints
is fully leveraged). However having descriptive URIs and consistent URIs
can enhance the possibility of discovering resources by guessing (i.e.
the level of "serendipity")