> Honestly, it's as if most web developers don't understand how powerful URLs can be.
Or, more likely, most of the "enterprise" apps with those URLs were first released over a decade ago, when the idea of "pretty URLs" was not yet mainstream. There was not even a mention of mod_rewrite on Wikipedia at that point. The article on the front controller pattern, which most webapps that handle their own URL routing use, wasn't written until 2008.
> most of the "enterprise" apps with those URLs were first released over a decade ago, when the idea of "pretty URLs" was not yet mainstream.
Or, even more likely, the enterprise customer never specified "URLs that aren't terrible" in their 100-page RFP, and so the lowest bidder didn't bother with URLs that aren't terrible.
Or, more likely, most of the "enterprise" apps with those URLs were first released over a decade ago, when the idea of "pretty URLs" was not yet mainstream. There was not even a mention of mod_rewrite on Wikipedia at that point. The article on the front controller pattern, which most webapps that handle their own URL routing use, wasn't written until 2008.