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Christopher Allan Webber

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Hey internet, question for you.  URL scheme for "browsing some media, but maintaining navigation that it's in this collection":

I feel like #1 is right, or maybe number 2, and that it doesn't violate the one-url-path-per-item idea, but the counter-argument is that #3 is prettiest, which is true.

Thoughts?

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3 looks nicer. there's nothing magical about ? and canonical-ness. You have a URL to object+particularcontext in all cases. object can state its canonial url in page metadata if anyone cares.

Mike Linksvayer at 2013-09-05T14:48:02Z

I think I am confused. What is the "1" for in all three URL schemes? Is it used to identify the collection ("the 1st collection"), or to refer to the position of the media in the collection ("the 1st media in the collection")?

Would the following scheme be alright?

http://gmg.example.org/u/user-name/m/media-name/c/collection-name/

Also, I seems to recall that a collection can consists of media drawn from different users. Would this complicate things?

Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2013-09-05T15:13:14Z

Embarrassing typo in my last sentence. Let me try again:

"Also, I seem to recall that a collection can consist of media drawn from different users. Would this complicate things?"

Tyng-Ruey Chuang at 2013-09-05T15:16:18Z

imho #3

mray INACTIVE at 2013-09-05T17:16:10Z