[Typo3-typo3org] Fwd: Broken Link In "Inside TYPO3"

[Kasper Skårhøj]

I Rob,

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> http://www.w3.org/Provider/Style/URI

Thanks, comments:

"We just reorganized our website to make it better."
This is of course up-front design and all programmers know his claim is wrong. 
You can't know everything from the beginning and complete backwards 
compatibility will eventually paralyze you.

"We have so much material that we can't keep track of what is out of date and 
what is confidential and what is valid and so we thought we'd better just 
turn the whole lot off."
Yes, the solution is forethought, but this is the conclusion AFTER having done 
the mistakes that many are trying to correct.

Generally, when people use realurl they do so because they want the URL to 
reflect the hierarchical position of the document. However, I hope Tim will 
not claim that a document may not change position in the website. But then 
people expect the URL to change as well to keep it speaking! I just currently 
implementing this for realurl - including an expiretime for old urls. But 
what is the right way must be that old urls redirect to the new URL and send 
information back that this URL has changed. It's too late to insist that URLs 
are valid for years, even months. Better to fit reality.

Regarding the documentation library it will actually keep its URLs if people 
will do the mapping correctly. But I have no hope they will because I 
couldn't. What if someone completely rearranged the document or re-wrote it? 
Not only will it be an incredible task to remap the URls to new chapters but 
it will be pointless because any link to a chapter can't be expected to make 
semantic sense anymore now that the information there might be much 
different.

Tim seems to imply that once-published-never-changed and that is pretty naive.

- kasper



>
> Cheers,
> robert

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- kasper

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