From kde-core-devel Wed May 31 13:57:47 2000 From: Richard Moore Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:57:47 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: naming inconsistency in KURL X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=95978146016362 David Faure wrote: > > On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 02:28:05PM +0100, Richard Moore wrote: > > David Faure wrote: > > > > > > On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 08:22:04AM -0400, pbrown@redhat.com wrote: > > > > On Tue, 30 May 2000, Kurt Granroth wrote: > > > > > > > > > The first > > > > > > * @return The complete URL. > > > > > > > > > > and the second > > > > > > * @return A human readable URL. > > > > > > > > I don't know what a human-readable URL is vs. the complete one. This only > > > > makes sense if you already understand the methods! :) > > > > > > If you used konqueror to do web browsing as it is now (which displays .prettyURL(), > > > and if you used the 1.90 version (which displayed .url()) you would > > > see a huge difference. > > > > > > What else is there to say ? One is the complete url, the other one is > > > the human readable one, just as the docu states ;-) > > > > I think an example would be a good start. eg. if the url is something > > like: > > http://localhost:8080/test.cgi?test=hello%20world&name=fred > > > > What is the human readable version? I can think of several possible > > answers. > > http://localhost:8080/test.cgi > > http://localhost:8080/test.cgi?test=hello world&name=fred > This one. Great, that's the best of the answers IMHO. > > Think of it in konqueror's location bar: you want it nicely displayed > (no unnecessary encodings), but you still want it complete and working, > in case you hit Enter or edit it manually. Definitely. You also want it like this so you can cut and paste it into something else. > > I stand corrected. The docu lacks an example :) :-) Rich. > > -- > David FAURE > david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org > http://home.clara.net/faure/ > KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today -- Richard Moore rich@ipso-facto.freeserve.co.uk http://www.robocast.com/ richard@robocast.com http://developer.kde.org/ rich@kde.org