Re: CHAT Tiny URLs (was: NonVerbal Conlang?)

On 6/29/06, Henrik Theiling <theiling@...> wrote:
> > And why don't sites with huge urls tiny-ize them to begin with, or as an
> > alternative?
>
> I suppose it's an additional step in design, and those tiny URLs are
> not comprehensive or hierarchical at all.
Many sites actually do have shortcut URLs; but you don't get to them
by clicking around, because the URL in the location bar is designed to
reflect the structure of the site (at least, in sites that have a
visible structure at all).

For example, Cartoon Network's main page for their program "What's
New, Scooby-Doo?" is at http://www.cartoonnetwork.com/tv_shows/scooby.
  Which is fairly straightforward as it is - but simple
http://cartoonnetwork.com/scooby also works, and is a little less work
if you're typing instead of pasting or bookmarking.  You'd never find
that URL by clicking, but if you just try typing it, it works.

> > I suppose if you ask to tiny-url a site that someone else has already done,
> > you get that original tiny url, not a new one. ...
>
> I think so, too.
If you enter exactly the same URL, you get the same tinyurl.  But any
slight differences yield different shortenings.

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>