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Designing A Url Structure For Bbc Programmes | Smethurst
Don't build hierarchy into persistent URLs
Building hierarchy into URLs always feels like a neat thing to do. It makes them readable and hackable and human guessable. At least for the subset of people who look at and manipulate URLs. But building in hierarchy is painful when the hierarchies change over time. And the…
Episodes and segments
Episodes usually have a running order. In a news programmes these might be individual new stories, in a music programme the tracks played, in a football programme the matches covered. In PIPs the running order is modelled as a set of segments hanging off an episode version…
Episodes, brand and series
So a few episodes exist in isolation. Films are the obvious example of episodes that stand-alone (although I guess franchises like The Godfather or Star Wars or Home Alone could be grouped together). And occasionally (fairly often on Radio 4) there are single episode…
Episodes and clips
Finally clips. Clips were a later addition to the PIPs model and describing them is hard. Importantly they are not (as the name might suggest) necessarily bits clipped from full length episodes. Although they might be. They might also be a trailer for an episode, a trailer for…
One-thing-per-page vs one-page-per-thing
In December of that year the first streaming version of iPlayer was released. For a whole variety of reasons the “iPlayer inside” (/programmes) model never came about and instead iPlayer became a destination in its own right. But both iPlayer and /programmes were based on PIPs…