URLs with no "action"

What is the order in which Domino searches through the elements of a database if the URL does not specify the “action” part but does contain an element name–in addition to the database name, of course–as in

http://host/database.nsf/elementname

Subject: URLs with no “action”

I don’t know for sure, but I think I recall someone saying that it was based on the date the design note was added to the database and not which type of design element.