[thelist] FUN: How widely used is each web technology?

Jeff Howden jeff at jeffhowden.com
Wed Jun 15 13:11:47 CDT 2005


Shawn,

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> From: Shawn K. Quinn
> 
> > Honestly though, I agree that this is a completely
> > bogus method for determining popularity of web
> > technologies.
> 
> Especially in light of the fact that URLs aren't
> filenames and thus do not have to have "filename
> extensions" (for example, "Options +MultiViews" in
> Apache lets you refer to a file "catalog.html" by a
> URL like <http://www.example.com/catalog>).
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Similarly, I haven't used a ".cfm" file extension in my own development for
4+ years now.  Almost without exception, every URL on projects I've built
looks like a clean directory structure (though the "directories" are nothing
more than parameters being passed to the webapp - /foo/bar/boo/far/).

 [>] Jeff Howden
     jeff at jeffhowden.com
     http://jeffhowden.com/



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