- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2007 04:33:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007, Aaron Boodman wrote: > > In order to offline-enable bugzilla, you would first need to turn it > into an ajax-style application. Where you separate the UI template from > the data. > > If you still want to keep the old URLs working, this basically means > capturing (and periodically updating) every single possible entry point, > even though they will all have the exact same content (the ui template). > This doesn't seem reasonable to me. You could probably do it with the fallback support now. > > I think the problem here isn't necessarily just the query parameters > > though. The problem is more that the application has an open-ended URI > > space, and we want to capture the whole thing, without actually > > downloading a near-infinite amount of data per user. > > > > Another example would be flickr, where there are bazillions of images, > > each with their own permalink. Those, though, aren't query parameters. > > That's true, this was a compromise for Gears. Perhaps what's needed is > the concept of aliases. The developer could specify every possible > address that could be used to access this application. That's kinda what we have now. > I still would think you would want some sort of simple pattern matching > so you don't have to list every single bug separately, but it would also > work for the flickr case you describe. If by "pattern matching" you accept prefix matching, then that's what the spec says. :-) -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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