Most people do not have to type in urls. Most people just need to click on
a provided url or at worst case copy and paste onto a browser address
line. So for most people this seems like a non-issue.
my 2 cents,
Charles
On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:34:31 +0100, Kris Gybels <kris.gybels(a)vub.ac.be>
wrote:
I was wondering about the following: wouldn't it
be nicer to base the
url for a page on a 'short name' instead of the page's title?
I don't like this URL for example:
http://prog2.vub.ac.be:9090/declarativemetaprogramming/
When telling people to go take a look at the DMP site I'd prefer to use
the URL like
http://prog2.vub.ac.be:9090/DMP/, but I don't want to
change the page's title to this abbreviation either. So it would be nice
if the editor for pages allows you to not only set a 'title' for a page
but a 'short name' for it as well (by default: none). The page's url
should be derived from this short name.
I could probably hack this into Smallwiki myself easily, but it seems
like a generally useful feature and I'm wondering about a small issue as
well: should the *-syntax for making a link allow you to use short names
for pages too? What happens when the short name of one page and the
title of another are the same?
--
Charles A. Monteiro