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The Well Designed Urls Initiative
Hello and welcome to the wiki for The Well Designed URLs Initiative, a community project to provide patterns and advocate best practices for User-centered URL Design and further to raise awareness of the importance of URL design, especially among providers of server software websites hosting companies, and web application development tools vendors.
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Editing this Wiki
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News
- New IIS Rewriter: - (2007-01-13) - Added Ionic's ISAPI Rewrite Filter
- New Advocacy: - (2007-01-11) - Proposing URI Templates for WebForms 2.0
- New Essay: Conventions, Not Constraining Requirements - (2006-Dec-17) - A new essay that discusses how the Well Designed URLs plan to recommend conventions does not conflict with architectural principles of the World Wide Web.
- Introduction Started on Blog - (2006-Dec-11) - A multipart, multi-day introduction was started on the Well Designed URLs Initiative blog.
- eBook "Useful URLs" Released - (2006-Dec-01) - Ben Coffey just announced Useful URLs Version 0.1. Go Ben!
- Updated The Rules Page - (2006-Nov-30) - Changed the discussion rules to take long discussions to the mailing list.
- Case-sensitivity Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page to discuss issues related to Case-sensitivity.
- File Extensions Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page to discuss issues related to File Extensions.
- SEO Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page to discuss issues related to Search Engine Optimization (SEO.)
- Movable Type Page Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added a page with links about Movable Type.
- "Rewriting URLs in ASP.NET" Links Added - (2006-Nov-27) - Added links to articles.
- Glossary Page Added - (2006-Nov-19) - New Glossary page added.
- "Anatomy of a URL" Page Added - (2006-Nov-19) - New Anatomy of a URL page added.
- Professional Web 2.0 Programming Released! - (2006-Nov-15) Contains an entire chapter on HTTP and URLs and a section on Future Proofing Urls.
- URI Templates - (2006-Oct-28) Take a look at this draft proposal that will hopefully become an IETF Standard. This solves a lot of problems with the oft misunderstood URI Opacity Axiom. If you are a vendor, this draft proposal definitely deserves your support!
- Mailing List - (2006-Oct-24) We have a new Well Designed Urls Initiative Mailing List courtesy of Yahoo Groups. Subscribe Today!
- BLOG - (2006-Oct-22) Posts coming soon! Be sure to subscribe to the RSS feed to stay informed
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Overview
- Mission
- Principles
- Resources
- Participate!
- Signatories
- Champions
- Report Card Criteria
- Policies and Guidelines
- Quotes
- Case Studies
- Anatomy of a Url
- Glossary
- About
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Implementors/Implementations
- Web Applications
- Web Frameworks
- Web Servers
- Web Platforms - LAMP, Microsoft, etc.
- Websites
- Web Development Tools - Includes Integrated Development Environments (IDEs)
- Url Rewriters
- Programming Languages
- Structure of Urls
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Sponsoring
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