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>Directories full of stuff is similar to websites with URL paths like "/site.php?page_id=18231238". Or even better when subdomains get involved and it looks lik
by csydas 3y ago
>Directories full of stuff is similar to websites with URL paths like "/site.php?page_id=18231238". Or even better when subdomains get involved and it looks like "secure3.action.domain.com/admin.php?page=123424". It technically works but is a bit ugly.
OOC, why does this stand out for you? Just to explain my curiosity, I've worked on Mac since I was a kid starting with System 6 and then going to OS X when it came out, so Apple's "your program is all in that file" just kind of made sense to me and it was really convenient to just drag a file to the trash and the app is _mostly_ gone, minus a few .plist and other config files in ~/Library.
But I _like_ the old forums and sites that still show the stuff like page_id=N; for the boards and forums I go to, it's very useful to just jump around long topics or you can play with it on your shitposting.
Plus most modern browsers truncate or hide the full URL anyways; I dislike this feature personally, but at least Safari's concise tabs are a good balance for someone like me.
- throwawaymobule 3y agoBit of a tangent, but those .app 'files' are directories. I wish other OSs supported something like that. Those APE executables (e.g. redbean) are the closest I've seen that work widely.
- resonious 3y agoFair enough, for message boards it's fine. I think I was mostly just thinking about old/sloppy WordPress sites where you might click on "about us" and it takes you to ?page_id=1234. Feels like a lack of attention to detail compared to /about-us. Similarly, a binary surrounded by a bunch of folders and dlls feels like a lack of attention to detail (and thus kind of "corporate" as the previous poster mentioned).