Maybe NYC could start with a simple URL
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Re: Maybe NYC could start with a simple URL
#2.../html/home/home.shtml ...there's a certain symmetry, don't you think?
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#4.../html/home/home.shtml ...there's a certain symmetry, don't you think?
Agreed. To simplify even further:
http://www.nyc.gov/shtml/home/home/html/simplicity/html/home...
Re: Maybe NYC could start with a simple URL
#5Can someone explain why this is? You would think that the developers building it would say, "hey, let's make these urls a bit more friendly..."
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#6Redundancy is important in simplicity discussion, they want to say.
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#7Can someone explain why this is? You would think that the developers building it would say, "hey, let's make these urls a bit more friendly..."
The developers building it just said "I work for the Government, who cares."
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#9Can someone explain why this is? You would think that the developers building it would say, "hey, let's make these urls a bit more friendly..."
It has not been my experience that government RFPs contain bullet points like "URLs should be non-redundant" and "In general, the software should not suck." No, instead they're like "The website shall make specific steps to be Y2K compliant as outlined in the Council of American Governors Strategy Memorandum On Y2K Compliance, edition 2.1A revised."
P.S. Find the Y2K compliance code. It doesn't work, but working is not the reason they needed Y2K compliance code in the first place -- it is just another checkbox to fill.
Re: Maybe NYC could start with a simple URL
#10Can someone explain why this is? You would think that the developers building it would say, "hey, let's make these urls a bit more friendly..."
My guess is that "html" really means "folder full of static stuff," and each project needs to be in it's own subdirectory called "home." Confusingly, Apache or whatever might be config'ed to read directories indexes from home.shtml.
The first html is the generic static assets folder, and the second is the local projects' folder full of assets.
Poor developers never had a chance.
www.nyc.gov/html/housinginfo/html/home/home.shtml
www.nyc.gov/html/dob/html/home/home.shtml
www.nyc.gov/html/planyc2030/html/home/home.shtml
etc.