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From: Dan Kegel dank@kegel.com To: wine-devel wine-devel@winehq.org Sent: Sunday, February 17, 2008 6:55:06 PM Subject: appdb feature request: hide the ugly urls
How hard would it be for the appdb to support more readable URLs for vendors and applications? e.g. Adobe Premiere is currently at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=128 but it'd be so slick to see instead http://appdb.winehq.org/adobe/premiere
Believe it or not, that little change would make the appdb less scary for newcomers.
- Dan
That's relatively easy to do with mod_rewrite. But it would have to be something like:
http://appdb.winehq.org/app/128/adobe-premiere.html
All the info is still in the URL (which mod_rewrite can extract), but it does look less scary.
Remco
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On Feb 17, 2008 3:19 PM, Remco remco47@yahoo.com wrote:
Adobe Premiere is currently at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=128 but it'd be so slick to see instead http://appdb.winehq.org/adobe/premiere
That's relatively easy to do with mod_rewrite. But it would have to be something like:
http://appdb.winehq.org/app/128/adobe-premiere.html
All the info is still in the URL (which mod_rewrite can extract), but it does look less scary.
Not quite good enough. 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 - Dan
Dan Kegel wrote:
On Feb 17, 2008 3:19 PM, Remco remco47@yahoo.com wrote:
Adobe Premiere is currently at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=128 but it'd be so slick to see instead http://appdb.winehq.org/adobe/premiere
That's relatively easy to do with mod_rewrite. But it would have to be something like:
http://appdb.winehq.org/app/128/adobe-premiere.html
All the info is still in the URL (which mod_rewrite can extract), but it does look less scary.
Not quite good enough. 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
- Dan
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? Granted having all the links as some ID to some cryptic script is even worse.
If you want the link to be a application's name, how about games with a huge long name? Like "Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 1.x". Is that easier to enter? I don't think so.
IMHO just fixing the search and getting rid of all those banners in the search results would be much more helpful.
Vitaliy.
Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
Dan Kegel wrote:
On Feb 17, 2008 3:19 PM, Remco remco47@yahoo.com wrote:
Adobe Premiere is currently at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=128 but it'd be so slick to see instead http://appdb.winehq.org/adobe/premiere
That's relatively easy to do with mod_rewrite. But it would have to be something like:
http://appdb.winehq.org/app/128/adobe-premiere.html
All the info is still in the URL (which mod_rewrite can extract), but it does look less scary.
Not quite good enough. 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
- Dan
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? Granted having all the links as some ID to some cryptic script is even worse.
If you want the link to be a application's name, how about games with a huge long name? Like "Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 1.x". Is that easier to enter? I don't think so.
IMHO just fixing the search and getting rid of all those banners in the search results would be much more helpful.
And while we are on the AppDB topic can someone finally add pages or add at least one usable threads display mode? Any application with more then 10 posts is impossible to read! And god forbid a thread having 5 replays - then it's unusable at all regardless how you looking at it.
Vitaliy
Vitaliy wrote:
Vitaliy Margolen wrote:
Dan Kegel wrote:
On Feb 17, 2008 3:19 PM, Remco remco47@yahoo.com wrote:
Adobe Premiere is currently at http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=128 but it'd be so slick to see instead http://appdb.winehq.org/adobe/premiere
That's relatively easy to do with mod_rewrite. But it would have to be something like:
http://appdb.winehq.org/app/128/adobe-premiere.html
All the info is still in the URL (which mod_rewrite can extract), but it does look less scary.
Not quite good enough. 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
- Dan
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? Granted having all the links as some ID to some cryptic script is even worse.
If you want the link to be a application's name, how about games with a huge long name? Like "Command & Conquer 3: Tiberium Wars 1.x". Is that easier to enter? I don't think so.
IMHO just fixing the search and getting rid of all those banners in the search results would be much more helpful.
And while we are on the AppDB topic can someone finally add pages or add at least one usable threads display mode? Any application with more then 10 posts is impossible to read! And god forbid a thread having 5 replays
- then it's unusable at all regardless how you looking at it.
Vitaliy
Now from the right address.
And while we are on the AppDB topic can someone finally add pages or add at least one usable threads display mode? Any application with more then 10 posts is impossible to read! And god forbid a thread having 5 replays - then it's unusable at all regardless how you looking at it.
Vitaliy
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
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