- From: Olle Olsson <olleo@sics.se>
- Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:56:28 +0200
- To: site-comments@w3.org
Yepp.../Olle -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: New W3C Web Site Launched - embarrassing fact! Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 10:46:00 +0200 From: Olle Olsson <olleo@sics.se> Organization: SICS To: Ian Jacobs <ij@w3.org> CC: W3C Comm Team <w3t-comm@w3.org> References: <A8BFEC50-4EB9-4DA8-BF70-D133B6A4DF6C@w3.org> <4AD5898C.6020402@sics.se> That links to the archive does not work can be seen in the actual announcement of the new design. There there is a reference to the "Beta announcement", of the form http://www.w3.org/News/2009#item37 which just leaves you ta the top of 2009 news ;-) /olle Olle Olsson wrote: > Hi, > > (1) The old home page provided "permalinks" at the end of the home > page news item, for example > > Text: (Permalink) > Link: http://www.w3.org/News/2008#item129 > > These do not work anymore, right. > *QUESTION*: > - Was it not the idea that Permalinks were permanent links? Cool URIs > do not change;-) > > > (2) the new scheme for identifying archive items has a numeric part, > like: > id="entry-6519" > This numeric part does not seem to be nicely correlated to > chronological order of news items. > E.g.: > entry-6519 Oct 8 > entry-6516 Oct 9 > > *QUESTION*: > - is this intentional -- that the numeric part has no ordering > implications on news items? > > Reason for question: > - I automatically parse the news archive, knowing what item I > processed in the previous run. Whenever I see a number (the old style, > example "item129") the numeric part of which was equal or less that > the last number processed in previous run, then I knew that I had > encountered all new additions. This seems not so easy now, if no > assumptions can be made about order. I have to store a big database ol > *all* ids seen. So, the weird ordering I see now, is that a side > effect of moving old news into the new structure, or is it a permanent > feature? > > Regards, > /olle > > Ian Jacobs wrote: >> Dear Advisory Committee Representatives and Chairs, >> >> Today W3C launched its new Web site: >> http://www.w3.org/ >> >> We also launched the new Member site: >> http://www.w3.org/Member/ >> >> I hope that you will find the new sites more usable. You will notice >> that some pages are missing content; we plan to continue to add >> content over time and invite your contributions (especially from >> Working Groups). >> >> I expect that over the next few days we will be fixing bugs in style >> sheets, and so forth. Feel free to send comments to >> site-comments@w3.org. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Ian Jacobs, Head of W3C Communications >> >> -- >> Ian Jacobs (ij@w3.org) http://www.w3.org/People/Jacobs/ >> Tel: +1 718 260 9447 >> >> >> >> > -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Olle Olsson olleo@sics.se Tel: +46 8 633 15 19 Fax: +46 8 751 72 30 [Svenska W3C-kontoret: olleo@w3.org] SICS [Swedish Institute of Computer Science] Box 1263 SE - 164 29 Kista Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------ -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Olle Olsson olleo@sics.se Tel: +46 8 633 15 19 Fax: +46 8 751 72 30 [Svenska W3C-kontoret: olleo@w3.org] SICS [Swedish Institute of Computer Science] Box 1263 SE - 164 29 Kista Sweden ------------------------------------------------------------------
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