Re:Finally, voting without refresh
by Bogtha on Wednesday June 13, 2007 @02:27PM
(#27844)
> Anything that assumes that GET links can be arbitrarily followed will break stuff all over the web.
Arbitrarily performing GETs is something condoned by the HTTP 1.1 specification. Anything that assumes that GETs won't be arbitrarily followed is clueless.
You'd think people would have learned this the first time around. Don't write out-of-spec code and then complain when conforming code comes along and trashes your app. It's your bug, not theirs.
> GWA needs all kinds of heuristics to avoid that kind of thing.
How reliable. Wouldn't it be better to follow the spec so this kind of guesswork wasn't necessary?
Arbitrarily performing GETs is something condoned by the HTTP 1.1 specification. Anything that assumes that GETs won't be arbitrarily followed is clueless.
You'd think people would have learned this the first time around. Don't write out-of-spec code and then complain when conforming code comes along and trashes your app. It's your bug, not theirs.
> GWA needs all kinds of heuristics to avoid that kind of thing.
How reliable. Wouldn't it be better to follow the spec so this kind of guesswork wasn't necessary?