William's Great Movable Type Migration

October 30, 2003

You'll be redirected in 30 seconds...

Or, just click this link to go directly to the correct page: Whim: New Goings-On...

Q. What's all the fuss?

A. Improved the human readability of the URLs.

For example:

WAS: http://reilly2001.info/whim/archives/000015.html
NOW: http://reilly2001.info/whim/archives/jobsearch/inquiry_from_87_mlis_re_document_engineering_oxf_2003-08-26.html

For the technically inclined...

Here's the W3C technical recommendation against what I'm doing here: using HTML's 'meta' tag and the 'http-equiv' attribute to effect this kind of redirect: Use Server-Side Redirects Instead.

"Note. Some user agents support the use of META to refresh the current page after a specified number of seconds, with the option of replacing it by a different URI. Authors should not use this technique to forward users to different pages, as this makes the page inaccessible to some users. Instead, automatic page forwarding should be done using server-side redirects."

http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-META

No server-side redirect here, but that's why I'm giving you the explicit link to click on yourself, if need be...