Comments by "Chaos Corner" (@chaos.corner) on "You're Doing Everything Wrong With URLs" video.

  1.  @Poldovico  It breaks down on on personal and single product sites if when you fix a typo, your links break. Brodie's just being too dogmatic on this one. Another issue is when users type l instead of 1 for example (identical in some fonts). In the URLs described, the ID always takes you to the page and the title is typically just used to give more meaning to the user (not ideal but immensely useful often). Some fun has been had on some pages where the provided title is actually used to populate the title on the linked page itself.
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  2. Yes. In cases like shown in the video, the post-title is often just throwaway content to allow users to identify more info about the link. Not every URL is shared on a business card.
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  3. @ Note that as humans, we have already devised a system to have to avoid interacting with URLs directly in the form of QR codes. They're really that bad. Sometimes people will even add cute pictures or decorations just to hide their nature even more. Other considerations: People often get to the websites they want by typing the domain name into a search engine. Also, the address bar is typically no longer simply an address bar but a hodge-podge of address bar, search and history and tab search because URL addresses are just that cumbersome. Bear in mind I've been mulling these things over since the World Wide Web came with a spinning earth in front of a stylized S.
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  4. @FZs1 Yep. Important to remember that the path part of URLs is (almost) entirely arbitrary and it's up to the programmer to give it semantic meaning (albeit there's often a standard mapping in many web servers).
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  5. My underlying opinion is that a lot of the issues (and likewise with DNS) are actually caused by that users shouldn't be dealing with URLs directly anyway. Understanding this is like 'There is no spoon' from The Matrix. Unfortunately, I think it's too late to fix.
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  6. @ It almost always pays to end up using your own IDs. Even SSNs aren't unique.
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