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karlcow
How to explain in simple terms Web Architecture and HTTP for UX, marketing, front-end developers, etc.
Issue explanation It is usually a bad idea to automatically create URIs from the Content Title. It makes a more complex system to manage. Some of the issues are -...
So @tomcoates says it's "the age of pointing at things" (http://www.plasticbag.org/archives/2005/04/the_age_of_pointatthings/) which I guess is true if you are in the community of talking-about-thing-on-the-web. Wondering how we could craft a...
I guess we can't document the concepts of "web architecture for the rest of us" without a bit of history of hypertextuality? (cue notes from http://www.w3.org/2007/04/web-arch-keio/ ?)
> It is not > necessary to mark all permanently unavailable resources as "gone" or > to keep the mark for any length of time -- that is left to...
Stolen from the BBC's Nature Site Team, their [development manifesto](http://derivadow.com/2011/07/30/our-manifesto/) contains > Persistence — only mint a new URIs if one doesn’t already exist: once minted, never delete it A...
Several BBC teams have published their "manifesto" on topics such as: - URI creation, - URI persistence, - linking, - availability of representations - APIs or format negotiation Examples: http://www.tomski.com/archive/new_archive/000063.html...
Deleting a URI doesn't mean that you have to destroy the content associated to the URI. URI is just an identifier giving a reference to access a content (not to...