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 _______________________________________________ devs mailing list [email protected] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
