- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:02:23 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 24 Jun 2009, Aryeh Gregor 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!" If you're worried that they set their cookie or changed their style sheet such that they're hiding the implementor text, then point them to http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/?style=complete ...when sending them the link. > 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. The content doesn't differ, it just has some text hidden on demand. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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