Re: Bookmark 'stability'

Jan Algermissen wrote:
> 
> Thanks :-)  But, after all, maintaining URIs is cheap.
> 

Not as cheap as obsoleting them.  The number-one ongoing maintenance
issue for any Web Developer shop, is external links.  My biggest gripe
over the years is findlaw.com, they change their API all the damn time.

I definitely incur a cost in maintaining URIs when I take over a website
for a client; like as not, I'll want to change the URI allocation
scheme, and implement redirection for the old one.  If other developers
would just do the same, I wouldn't have to assign a lackey to run a link
checker and fix broken outbound links, regularly, for every site I
maintain.

-Eric