- From: Karl Dubost <karld@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 08:39:03 -0500
- To: "ashok.malhotra@oracle.com Malhotra" <ashok.malhotra@oracle.com>
- Cc: "www-tag@w3.org List" <www-tag@w3.org>
Let's keep the information in this thread
I’ve been getting madder and madder about the increasing use
of dorky web links; for example, twitter.com/timbray has
become twitter.com/#!/timbray. Others have too; see Breaking
the Web with hash-bangs and Going Postel. It dawns on me
that a word of explanation might be in order for those who
normally don’t worry about all the bits and pieces lurking
inside a Web address.
How It Works · Suppose I point my browser at
http://twitter.com/timbray. What happens is:
* The browser connects to twitter.com over the Internet and
sends a query whose payload is the string /timbray.
* Twitter’s server knows what /timbray means and sends back
the HTML which represents my tweetstream.
* The browser soaks up that HTML and displays it. The HTML
will contain links to all sorts of graphics and chunks of
Javascript, which the browser uses to decorate and enhance
the display.
Read more at
http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2011/02/09/Hash-Blecch
to be continued
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Karl Dubost - http://dev.opera.com/
Developer Relations & Tools, Opera Software
Received on Thursday, 10 February 2011 13:39:47 UTC