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Heirarchy the right way

Great idea about the direction of the heirachy of the web in URLs. This would so totally work with the REST-ish nature of flickr, del.icio.us, etc… The idea is, why do sites go right to left (www.emmott.net) when the rest of the site then goes left to right (/2005/01/07/heirarchy-the-right-way)?

Russell Beattie Notebook - World Wide Directory

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2 Responses to “Heirarchy the right way”

  1. John Mahowald Says:
    July 9th, 2005 at 10:20 pm

    I’ve wondered about this. Domain names have the heirarchy wrong. However, doing URLs like http://com/example/directory/page.html would make it hard to tell what server to look up. Where’s the host name end and the file name begin?

  2. kevan Says:
    August 9th, 2005 at 2:39 pm

    True. Though you could have some differentiation, I suppose, as you still do currently:

    http://net.emmott/2005/01/07/heirarchy-the-right-way

    or

    http://com.example/directory/page.html

    so you still have the server as the first field. Russell took the example even further by making it all slashes as you had - this also appears in things like Java classes: org.apache.commons.logging or whatever.

    I guess from the end user’s stand point, it shouldn’t matter whether you are dealing with a server or a directory or a subdomain, etc. It’s all just informational nodes on the web.

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