{"id":607,"date":"2006-03-18T18:45:35-05:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-18T23:45:35+00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/web-standards\/"},"modified":"2006-03-18T18:45:35-05:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-18T23:45:35+00:00","slug":"web-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterjanes.ca\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/web-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Web standards"},"content":{"rendered":"

I find it somewhat ironic that both the Web Standards Project<\/a> and advocate Lachlan Hunt<\/a> updated their sites recently but failed to meet one of the goals of the web: that Cool URIs Don’t Change<\/cite><\/a>. Even if they did<\/em> find that the URIs had to change, there are ways to prevent the existing ones from disappearing<\/a>—but that’s exactly what happened to their feed links.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

On a related topic, both sites also failed to preserve their unique item IDs<\/a> in the new feeds.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Both are subtle points that affect what’s most probably a tiny minority of users… but is it setting a good example that they don’t\/can’t\/won’t take these implicit standards into account?<\/p>\r\n\r\n

I don’t claim to be perfect in this respect—I have no idea if my feed item IDs changed when I last upgraded WordPress, for example, although I bet they did—but I’ve got a plethora of 301 Moved Permanently<\/code> redirects on this site, my old one<\/a> and others<\/a> I manage<\/a> to keep old content<\/a> available. And both WaSP<\/abbr> and Hunt kept the bulk of their URIs constant\/redirected, so they’re still better than 99% of the other<\/em> sites out there; the only reason I’m picking on them is that I just noticed that both feeds were dead.<\/p><\/div>

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