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Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute by chrisseaton on Saturday February 09, 2019 @12:38PM (#19123513)
> There's nothing stopping GET requests from having side effects.

> It's like pointing to a list of best practices and saying "everyone surely follows these."

It’s not a ‘best practice’ it’s literally the spec for the web.

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Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute by hombre_fatal on Saturday February 09, 2019 @01:04PM (#19123643)
What percent of developers do you think have even read the RFC?

Browsers take a more practical approach than "well, it's in the spec, they should know better" which is apparently what you're suggesting.

It's the same reason browsers will do their best to render completely ridiculous (much less spec-complaint) HTML.

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Re:Show HN: Make your site’s pages instant in one minute by lixtra on Saturday February 09, 2019 @03:14PM (#19124327)
To prove your point: If I remember correctly HN votes are sent as GET.
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