[Yanel-dev] yanel prefix link in order to activate the Yanel toolbar

[Guillaume Déflache]

Hi!

Michael Wechner schrieb:
> Hi
> 
> One can activate (and enter Yanel) the toolbar by typing
> 
> http://foo.bar/yanel/REALM_ID/some-page.html?yanel.toolbar=on
> 
> whereas some people add this link to the website (for example at the 
> bottom) and some people do not want to add this to the website, because 
> they think it's ugly or don't want this link to be indexed by search 

To fix indexing issues, we would have to make sure to add rel="nofollow" 
on the link *and* set the HTML robots meta attribute to 
"noindex,nofollow,noarchive,nosnippet" ( cf. 
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nofollow#Interpretation_by_the_individual_search_engines 
and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element#The_robots_attribute )
But anyway we should really use POST-then-redirect there instead, and 
only use GET for debugging.


> engines or don't wan't to point people where one can enter Yanel.
> 
> Still, somehow one needs to access Yanel and remembering/typing the 
> above link is a bit cumbersome.
> 
> So I thought why not introduce something like
> 
> http://foo.bar/yanel/REALM_ID/yanel
> 
> as link instead, which I think is much easier to remember and is 
> configurable within web.xml and gives some identity to Yanel.
> 
> WDYT?

You mean where "yanel" would be the reserved prefix, right? Why not, but 
maybe it should not toggle the toolbar permanently (IOW for the 
session)? (I am still reluctant to add new URLs that change state...)

Cheers,
    Guillaume