Re: interesting hash in URLs

I believe it isn't that horrible... except for the fact that, to non- 
browsers, http://www.cnn.com/video/ appears as a single resource. I  
think this is the (very) criticizable part.

I have done recently a more constrained example where the internal  
part was used to jump inside the video. The whole day's workshop is  
here:
    http://www.openmath.org/meetings/linz2007/movies/day-1.html
and you can jump right on a speaker.
I see no other methods, except duplicate the page or split the video,  
to actually reference a jump to the right speaker except with the  
hash as in:
    http://www.openmath.org/meetings/linz2007/movies/day-1.html#Klaus

As long as one accepts the idea that this is a single resource (the  
"whole recordings") it is good style.

paul

Le 26 juil. 07 à 17:16, T.V Raman a écrit :

>
>
> Exactly, which is why I asked the question --- how does one
> interpret the '#'?
>
> As you point out, the value  after the '#' is not an idref into
> the document; rather  one way to interpret that '#' is as the
> client-side equivalent of the server-side '?' in the URL, i.e.
>
> http://example.com/foo/?a=1
> a=1 is a server param
>
> http://example.com/foo#a=1
>
> a is a client-side param
>
> But it's a bit mor eindirect than that.
>
>
> Things to take away:
>
> The CNN example is an interesting case of include processing ---
> ie the #foobar in the URL refers to some portion of the document
> that materializes after all scripts have run.
>
> More interestingly, it's not simple include processing at the
> level of jumping to an idref after all
> scripts have been processed; rather it's jumping off to another
> server.
>
> So this is why I asked the TAG question:
>
> What does '#' mean in that CNN URL.
>
>
>
> Alan Ruttenberg writes:
>> A GET of http://www.cnn.com/video/ is done and the client
>> "application" is responsible for interpreting and processing the
>> fragment identifier (/video/living/2007/07/06/
>> cnn.heroes.scott.southworth.two.cnn) . Typically one would expect
>> that if this is html and the client is the browser then the fragid is
>> an anchor, but in this case  it appears that a script that gets run
>> when that page is loaded picks up the rest of the stuff past the "#"
>> and arranges for another request in which the full path is passed as
>> a query parameter, that parameter being used by a different server to
>> retrieve the video in question.
>>
>> -Alan
>>
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fragment_identifier
>>
>> On Jul 26, 2007, at 10:31 AM, T. V. Raman wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> So I see URLs like the following on the CNN page:
>>> http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/living/2007/07/06/
>>> cnn.heroes.scott.southworth.two.cnn
>>>
>>> So what does the '#' in that URL mean?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>>
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