On Wed, May 23, 2001 at 02:58:43PM -0400, Michael Spunt wrote: > If a user requests a page not available on the server, he / she gets > redirected to "news", "404", "we have changed" or whatever from where he > / she can navigate to the required page and realizes that it's time to > update bookmarks. Backward-compatibility isn't cool. :-) Also, a new > navigation structure would really force a new file naming and all. That's pretty poor. Why would I want to update my bookmarks? Because you are a w1ck3d cool new webmaster? Because you've decided that downloads go in foo/ and screenshots go in baz/ ? Please explain to me, a simple web user, why I need the URLs for info on the Gimp site to change. If there isn't a compelling reason for the USER then there's no reason at all, is there? Nick.
