- From: Orion Adrian <orion.adrian@gmail.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 11:49:12 -0400
- To: w3c-wai-ig@w3.org
On 7/25/06, Patrick Lauke <P.H.Lauke@salford.ac.uk> wrote: > > > Julian Scarlett > > > I may be missing the point here but how do you provide a > > closest match given that all you know of is the requested > > URI? For CMS driven sites this may just be a page ID. > > Obviously, you can only provide potential matches if there's enough information in the URI to begin with (e.g. if it's not purely a numerical value, you could try closest match a la spellchecker or google's "did you mean...") > > On a tangent, there is certainly something to be said about URIs that are human-readable to a certain extent, as opposed to purely numerical ones... There's a certain point at which that's not really workable using current methodologies. There's a certain point at which naming conflicts get insane and numbers are produced to help track everything. Think ISBN or the SSN numbering systems. -- Orion Adrian
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