Robertson-Ravo, Neil (RX) wrote:
> Granted, while it is a cleaner URL it is in no way friendly, it's an ugly
> hack.

An ugly hack? How so? A URL (or more properly a URI) is meant to provide 
a descriptive and permanent location for a piece of content. The url I 
provided does exactly that. One of the reasons I'm fond of search engine 
friendly url's is that they are not tied to a particular physical 
directory structure. If you move a piece of content around on your hard 
drive or you switch to a different CMS system that organizes content 
differently there is no good reason for the URI to change. The content 
is the same and its URI should stay the same. That's one of the powers 
of a rewriter, it allows you to make descriptive uri's while abstracting 
away from the underlying technology. Which is how it should be.

Take a look at Tim Berners-Lee article on the subject called Hypertext 
Style: Cool URIs don't change. http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

Judah



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