Clean URLs for News, Album etc

[ladyr0gue]

Figured they aren't possible

answer: no.

Once you add parameters like sort order, sorting field, page number, page limit, summary template, detail template (and other parameters that the news and other various modules support for customizing the output) to the url, no matter what you do, it won't be pretty.  and besides, usually it's the detail view that's most important anyways... users don't generally care about how ugly the url is to access "the 4th page of all news articles (even expired ones) sorted by author in decending order with 5 items per page", using a different detail template.

News allows you numerous ways to organize the data, just by adding more calls to the module.  Making the pagination urls 'pretty' would require removing that flexibility.

[edit: sorry about this post. it was not supposed to be a new topic, or here - I thought I was answering a thread and must have had too many tabs open. feel free to delete mods ]