{"id":15141,"date":"2016-07-11T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=15141"},"modified":"2016-07-11T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T14:54:41","slug":"the-history-of-this-web-site-is-well-crafted-hints","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/11\/the-history-of-this-web-site-is-well-crafted-hints\/","title":{"rendered":"The History of &ldquo;This Web Site Is Well-crafted&rdquo; Hints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.holovaty.com\/writing\/well-crafted-websites\/\">Adrian Holovaty<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.holovaty.com\/writing\/well-crafted-websites\/\">\n<p>Over time, technology stabilizes and the techniques become expected. 10+ years ago, in the era of <code>.cgi<\/code> and <code>.asp<\/code>, I remember geeking out with <a href=\"http:\/\/lanyrd.com\/profile\/simonw\/\">Simon Willison<\/a> about beautiful URL structures we&rsquo;d seen. <em>No file extensions! Readable! Hackable!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>To us, they were signals that a web development team sweated the small stuff. It&rsquo;s like the famous Steve Jobs story about making the <em>inside<\/em> of the hardware look just as nice as the outside, even if nobody ever sees it, because you have pride in your work.<\/p>\n<p>With this in mind, I put together a list of these hints, as I remember them. Perhaps it&rsquo;s of some historical interest, or maybe it&rsquo;s just fun nostalgia. Almost all of these have become mainstream by now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adrian Holovaty: Over time, technology stabilizes and the techniques become expected. 10+ years ago, in the era of .cgi and .asp, I remember geeking out with Simon Willison about beautiful URL structures we&rsquo;d seen. No file extensions! Readable! Hackable! To us, they were signals that a web development team sweated the small stuff. It&rsquo;s like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[338,295,489,96],"class_list":["post-15141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-css","tag-history","tag-url","tag-web"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15142,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions\/15142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}