[Cosmo-dev] Cosmo and Scooby URLs

[Ted Leung]

On Jun 16, 2006, at 1:20 PM, Brian Moseley wrote:

> On 6/16/06, Mimi Yin <mimi at osafoundation.org> wrote:
>> We've all decided (based on the internal product prioritization
>> exercise) that supporting ecosystem workflows is more important than
>> meeting interoperability standards.
>
> well, no. we didn't all decide. you may recall the argument i made on
> the general list that i didn't buy the desktop client story and that
> web service integration is much more important. i strongly disagree
> with the decision above and have no interest in compromising the
> integrity of cosmo's interfaces just because some of you guys think
> that users can't cope with the notion of different tools requiring
> different urls.

I think that if you talk to people outside the computer business,  
you'll discover that they do in fact have trouble with all those  
URLs.   Just because you don't have trouble with it doesn't mean that  
the average person won't have trouble with it.

Ted