15 Dec
2008
15 Dec
'08
5:55 p.m.
On Dec 15, 2008, at 6:51 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu wrote:
Fabio Mancinelli wrote:
Vincent Massol wrote:
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")
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.
+1 to that. -Vincent