web manifesto... forgot the author's name

I don't think it's labeled a "manifesto" but it's basically about how websites should work. One of the things in the list is that it should be accessible via GETs and not POSTs. Have clean extensionless urls, etc... I've seen it linked t开发者_开发问答o a couple of times by bloggers I am just drawing a complete blank on how to find it now.

Do you perhaps mean some of the articles that written by Tim Berners-Lee and published as part of the W3C Style Guide? For example, this one on extension-less URIs.

Jakob Nielsen's Alertbox columns are another commonly quoted source. Nielsen is widely acclaimed as somewhat of a user-experience expert before UX was cool. For example, here is his take on URLs as UI.

I think you're talking about Roy Fielding's dissertation on REST