Re: Cool URIs (was: Re: Java Framework for Content Negotiation)

On 1 Jun 2010, at 19:37, Bernhard Schandl wrote:
> I want to throw in another question, are there currently arguments  
> for or against the two alternatives:
>
> http://www.example.org/doc/alice.html
>
> vs
>
> http://www.example.org/doc/html/alice
>
> and the same for .rdf vs rdf/

In terms of web architecture both options are the same. But the first  
one has several “soft” advantages:

- more idiomatic and hence easier to remember and use
- more compatible with the Hierarchical URIs pattern [1]
- yields an obvious URI for the generic, format-independent version of
   the resource (chop off the extension)

Best,
Richard

[1] http://patterns.dataincubator.org/book/hierarchical-uris.html



>
> Best
> Bernhard
>
>

Received on Wednesday, 2 June 2010 10:42:04 UTC