Re: Link Management

I am adding image and other reference management as a subset of link management.

On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 16:43:46 -0700, Robert Koberg wrote
> 
> To me, a redirect is an ugly hack. 

I agree, but would preface "ugly hack" with "seemingly unavoidable".  What
alternatives are available to support for instance obsolete vanity URLs? 
Information architecture seems to change constantly regardless of analysis
before implementation.

> And to me, the CMS should build 
> document relative links (as opposed to root relative) so a site can 
> be dropped anywhere.

This also applies to internationalization of image and other references - if
relative paths are used, href and src attributes need less update during
translation.  Then those references must be adjusted if a user moves the
single record containing the reference.  And again going back to WYSIWYG
editors, some don't seem to provide the relative path option.  And at least in
Interwoven, when you preview it generates a temp file in some logically random
location which breaks relative references.  There are probably presentation
coding techniques to fix this, but advanced customization is considered best
avoided as it can bite back.  Quagmire, but again, these problems should be
easy for software.