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

[Michael Wechner]

Guillaume Déflache schrieb:
> 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.

will add this to the from scratch realm as best practice example
>
>
>> 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?

yes
> 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...)

well, the question is, is there a better alternative ;-) ?

Cheers

Michael
>
> Cheers,
>    Guillaume