[Developers] GUIDs considered harmful

[Ryan Miller]

i second that, especially regarding the #/%23 issue, it adds an annoyance
layer to both the JavaScript and
ColdFusion freebase apps I've worked on.

On 8/17/07, Will Moffat <will at hamstersoup.com> wrote:
>
> Dear Metaweb developers,
>
> I wrote a bookmarklet for injecting Freebase content into other websites.
> You can see its output on this Gaia-Online forum:
> http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=31225865
>
> Unfortunately the links back to Freebase.com topics are broken. Gaia
> uses a redirect script that barfs on both '#' and the escaped form
> '%23'
>
> Could Freebase.com provide another entry point? Something like
> freebase.com/view/8411f1
> would be so much better than
> freebase.com/view/?id=%239202a8c04000641f80000000008411f1
>
> Of course, this would be less of an issue if we had human-readable
> IDs. Is this happening sometime soon? All the GUID stuff makes me feel
> like I'm editing a Windows Registry . Takes the fun out of Freebasing
> ;-)
>
> regards,
> --Will
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