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Can rev="canonical" Replace URL-Shortening Services?

Posted by Soulskill on from the snds-lk-a-pln dept.

Chris Shiflett writes "There's a new proposal ('URL shortening that doesn't hurt the Internet') floating around for using rev="canonical" to help put a stop to the URL-shortening madness. In order to avoid the great linkrot apocalypse, we can opt to specify short URLs for our own pages, so that compliant services (adoption is still low, because the idea is pretty fresh) will use our short URLs instead of TinyURL.com (or some other third-party alternative) replacements."

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  2. Re:WTF? by DerekLyons · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Just goes to show that you don't really need to know anything to teach web design. I have no formal IT training, and other than maintaining a couple of crappy websites a decade ago, have no formal IT experience.
     
    But I understood every word.