[Nitro] Consistency

[James Britt]

Jonathan Buch wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> - use everywhere alias instead of alias_method
>> - use the name uri instead of url
>> - use facets/more,facets/core instead of facet
>>
>> If anyone has any objection please let me know.
> 
> no objection today. :P  except that url is a little more common
> than uri perhaps...
> 
> http://www.google.com/trends?q=url,+uri&date=all&geo=all&ctab=1&sa=N
> 
> uri is (as I remember from some class) also stuff like the ISBN,
> for web stuff plain URL might be better in the Nitro case...
> So how about the other way round, all uri > url?

Is Nitro limited to Web stuff?  Could I not have URIs with my own 
protocol (e.g., jgb://some-stuff )  and teach Nitro to Do The Right 
Thing when it sees it?

I think I tend to think of Web apps (or apps in general) as "fetch this 
resource, do something with it, and pass it on."  Often it involves 
http:// , but not always.



-- 
James Britt

"Trying to port the desktop metaphor to the Web is like working
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