OK, so the UK Get a Mac ads, are fun, the Japanese versions are mmmmoé, and it is a puzzle that Apple think us Brits need localisation ahead of the French or the Spanish. But what I like best about Apple is they really understand how to write clean, cool URIs, none of that Microsoft ".aspx" cruft up or pug-ugly Amazon session specific nonsence. I assume all these people respect browser language preferences.
I seem to be in danger of becoming a Mac fan-boy. I'd better watch that.
So why does quicktime try to drag iTunes with it?
(Lets see if my OpenId works.)
I guess 'cos they sell videos in their evil DRM store. That ain't cool.
I don't even own a Mac, and I'm a fanboy.
I wouldn't say this is a cool URI ;)
http://store.apple.com/Apple/WebObjects/ukBusiness?type=bizukPRO&qprm=67752
well, it might be cool, but it is pretty pug-ugly!
Well, i'm not sure I agree: Having a look at those URI's it seems microsoft follows a RFC 1766 convention for global site names.
http://www.microsoft.com/en/uk/
or
http://www.microsoft.com/en/us/
The default.aspx doesn't really matter as long as the webserver is setup to use that a default page (which they have). Same as apache and index.html I guess!
Mac, Windows balance restored. Although I do like the Mac site better :-)
Er, http://www.microsoft.com/en/uk/ is 404.
My fault following the RFC that should have been
http://www.microsoft.com/en/gb/
I guess i'm more used to saying UK over GB!
As with country code domain names, using "UK" instead of "GB" is a common exception of what the RFC specifies.