{"id":3038,"date":"2011-02-10T16:36:02","date_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3038"},"modified":"2011-02-10T16:36:07","modified_gmt":"2011-02-10T21:36:07","slug":"broken-links","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/10\/broken-links\/","title":{"rendered":"Broken Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2011\/02\/09\/Hash-Blecch\">Tim Bray<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2011\/02\/09\/Hash-Blecch\"><p>Before events took this bad turn, the contract represented by a link was simple: &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a string, send it off to a server and the server will figure out what it identifies and send you back a representation.&rdquo; Now it&rsquo;s along the lines of: &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a string, save the hashbang, send the rest to the server, and rely on being able to run the code the server sends you to use the hashbang to generate the representation.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Do I need to explain why this is less robust and flexible?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tbray.org\/ongoing\/When\/201x\/2011\/02\/09\/Hash-Blecch#c1297321580.470725\">Mark Jaquith<\/a> in the comments explains why Twitter is doing this and how hopefully it will stop being &ldquo;necessary.&rdquo;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tim Bray: Before events took this bad turn, the contract represented by a link was simple: &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a string, send it off to a server and the server will figure out what it identifies and send you back a representation.&rdquo; Now it&rsquo;s along the lines of: &ldquo;Here&rsquo;s a string, save the hashbang, send the rest [&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":[],"class_list":["post-3038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038","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=3038"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3039,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3038\/revisions\/3039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}