[Clipart] [Bug 3508] BLOG: Add wordpress blog engine to the site like Inkscape.org

[Jonathan Leighton]

Nicu Buculei wrote:

> Jonathan Leighton wrote:
>
>>
>> TBH I'd like to use proper absolute paths on the website. All that
>> $site_root stuff is extremely messy. I know it's done with relative
>> paths so that people running from a subdirectory on their local machine
>> (like http://localhost/clipart/) don't have a problem, but really, I
>> don't think that's a good excuse. Absolute paths make life *so* much
>> easier (after you've been bothered to set up VHosts), and I really
>> wouldn't do it any other way on one of my own sites. Also, URIs like
>> /contact.php are bad (what happens if you change technology? the file
>> name changes --> 404s), it should be done as just "/contact/" (Which can
>> be implemented with MultiViews easily -- not mod_rewrite). Furthermore,
>> cgi-bin directories are really, really, really (REALLY) evil (see above
>> about technologies).
>
>
> for absolute enjoyment:
> 1. http://openclipart.org
> 2. click on "Browse"
> 3. enter in any category (keyword) you want (without this step you
> will get "only" a 404 error)
> 4. press "See More" on the right sidebar

Which is exactly the point... right? If it was "/submissions.php",
instead of "submissions.php" there would be no problem. (Or have a
mis-understood something?)

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