- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sat, 24 Dec 2005 18:08:04 +0100
- To: Wilfredo Sánchez Vega <wsanchez@wsanchez.net>
- CC: webdav WG <w3c-dist-auth@w3.org>
Wilfredo Sánchez Vega wrote: > --- >> In general, I'd expect them to only display the text content. > > The XML, you mean? If not, what's the text content of > "<foo><bar/></foo>"? The empty string. > Only an engineer would think that a generic client is an acceptable UI > for browsing structured data, even if it is XML "text". > > Lisa and some others in CalDAV think it's useful to have meaningful > resource names in CalDAV because then you can browse it with Firefox or > mount it in Finder, as if my Mom wants to crack open an iCalendar > resource and read it for fun. That's OK for developers, but it's > _really_ bad UI. Never mind localization issues and the like. It may be bad UI, but that doesn't change the fact that meaningful (stable) URLs are a good thing... > ... Best regards, Julian
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