On Feb 17, 2008 4:13 PM, Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com wrote:
People need to be able to guess the URL. We should be able to look up 'adobe-premiere' and get '128'. So maybe http://appdb.winehq.org/app/adobe-premiere.html
I don't think that would work all that well. As-is AppDB having all sorts of problem with it's search function. You want to break all the links as well?
No, of course not. All the existing URLs should remain valid.
How about games with a huge long name? Like "Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 1.x".
http://appdb.winehq.org/app/command-conquer-3-tiberium-wars/ doesn't sound too bad, actually. And if somebody types in an ambiguous URL, like http://appdb.winehq.org/app/command-conquer they should get a list of matching apps. So this is kind of like a search function rather than a unique ID. The difference being that apps would normally be displayed at their shortest unique human-readable URL rather than by ID #. This may have an obscure but important benefit: I read on the web somewhere that it boosts search engine rankings. (Not that I'd know; I'm way away from that part of google.) - Dan