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Oh please. Well enough to work != perfect. You don't need to spend 10 hours trying to figure out every possible edge case to sending an email with a link in it.
by icey 16y ago
Oh please. Well enough to work != perfect. You don't need to spend 10 hours trying to figure out every possible edge case to sending an email with a link in it. If it works 99.9% of the time, you can manually handle the few cases where it doesn't.
- CodeMage 16y agoActually, he's right. The problem is that the example you chose isn't very good for the point you're trying to make. First of all, forgotten password management is extremely important. You don't want to lose those users. Second, all sorts of things can go wrong with e-mail. I don't often find myself agreeing with Jeff Atwood, but he nailed it in his post: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-send-some-email-through-code.html http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2010/04/so-youd-like-to-sen...