Re: [whatwg] Proposing URI Templates for WebForms 2.0

I didn't see any use cases in the original e-mail; did I miss  
something? An example or two tends to focus discussion well...

Cheers,


On 01/11/2008, at 12:59 PM, Mike Schinkel wrote:

> Mark>> compelling use cases for this, but we haven't seen those yet  
> AFAIK.
>
> What classifies as a "compelling use-case" in your mind?
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: uri-request@w3.org [mailto:uri-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Mark
> Nottingham
> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2008 6:38 PM
> To: Ian Hickson
> Cc: Jerome Louvel; whatwg@lists.whatwg.org; uri@w3.org;
> rest-discuss@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [whatwg] Proposing URI Templates for WebForms 2.0
>
>
> +1, although I'd say it a bit differently.
>
> Doing it in script precludes unintended reuse, e.g., for  
> accessibility,
> search engines, and so forth; it's not a good solution
> *if* there are compelling use cases for this, but we haven't seen  
> those yet
> AFAIK.
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> On 29/10/2008, at 6:20 AM, Ian Hickson wrote:
>
>>
>> On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jerome Louvel wrote:
>>>
>>> Even though the URI template RFC is not finalized yet, we already
>>> have a complete support for it, on the server-side, in the Restlet
>>> framework.
>>> We happily use them for our URI-based routing and I think they add a
>>> lot of expressiveness while keeping a simple syntax. Usage example:
>>> http://www.restlet.org/tutorial#part11
>>>
>>> They are also supported in WADL, the RESTful description language,
>>> and in the OpenSearch specification. Extending their usage to HTML
>>> forms sounds like a logical and useful step.
>>
>> It seems to me like URI templates can be trivially done from script
>> and from the server side already; given the poor
>> backwards-compatibility story of URI templates, what do we gain from
>> adding it to the language?
>>
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