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Paul Ford must spend a non-negligible amount of time sitting around thinking: “What’s the dumbest thing I could get Wired or Bloomberg to publish?” And to be a
by miiiiiike 4y ago
Paul Ford must spend a non-negligible amount of time sitting around thinking: “What’s the dumbest thing I could get Wired or Bloomberg to publish?”
And to be absolutely pedantic: He shouldn’t be mad about forms and inputs, they can be used with the read-only web (GET params) and have client-side only uses (calculations.)
Given what he’s trying to say, the headline should be: “The ‘HTTP POST’ Method Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?”
But what’s a Paul Ford article without a misdirected a torrent of bromide to keep things flowing?
- arcturus17 4y agoUnfortunately, that's the state of much of digital journalism. The incentives (clicks) are simply not aligned with journalistic quality.
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- cphoover 4y agoYou don't need a `HTTP POST` to update server state this can be done with cookies/headers or the uri (granted doing so in the URI is a CSRF risk). Point being, client originated updates are an inevitability as long as we allow variable data to be passed from the client to the server.