From 6af5bf82902dc31491da50c3e836f03ec1073e48 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: joey <joey@0fa5a96a-9a0e-0410-b3b2-a0fd24251071>
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2007 10:57:11 +0000
Subject: web commit by http://madduck.myopenid.com/: add info on advantages
 and disadvantages of usedirs

---
 doc/tips/switching_to_usedirs.mdwn | 11 +++++++++++
 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)

(limited to 'doc/tips')

diff --git a/doc/tips/switching_to_usedirs.mdwn b/doc/tips/switching_to_usedirs.mdwn
index d2fed6dda..183ce00ac 100644
--- a/doc/tips/switching_to_usedirs.mdwn
+++ b/doc/tips/switching_to_usedirs.mdwn
@@ -17,3 +17,14 @@ to usedirs, or edit your setup file and turn usedirs back off.
 * Now all the URLs to pages in your wiki have changed. See
   [[redirections_for_usedirs]] for instructions on setting up redirections
   to keep the old URLs working.
+
+Why usedirs?
+------------
+There are several advantages to `usedirs`, including simpler URLs, URLs that
+aren't dependent on the underlying implementation (`.html`), and being able to
+use URLs as tags as described in the [rel-tag
+microformat](http://microformats.org/wiki/rel-tag).
+
+The main disadvantage is that it is harder to browse using `file://` URIs,
+since `file:///dir/` doesn't automatically translate to `dir/index.html`. This
+is something one could fix in the browser though.
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