- From: Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Jun 2009 18:11:29 -0500
On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 8:49 AM, Aryeh Gregor<Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 2009 at 3:15 AM, Ian Hickson<ian at hixie.ch> wrote: >> I don't think alternative style sheets are evil; in fact, they seem to be >> quite within the architecture of the Web. Surely you don't think that, >> e.g., GMail is evil for having the same URL for whether your contact list >> is hidden or expanded. > > I can't give other people links to my Gmail URLs anyway, since they > don't know my password (I hope). ?On the other hand, if I'm reading > the author version of HTML 5 and want to quote a portion of it to > someone with a link, it would be rather confusing if they said "Hey, > that's not what it says!" ?Publicly-viewable *documents* -- not > necessarily applications which may have no stable state anyway -- > whose *contents* -- not UI -- differ as dramatically as this should > have different URLs. ?That's how documents on the web have always > worked, and that's what people expect. They do: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/?style=complete http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/?style=author http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/?style=highlight It's just that the url http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ refers to specific resource based on the value of a cookie. The resources themselves are directly linkable, however. ~TJ
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