Great for complex apps in the browser and sharing complex save states! Bad for ordinary, mundane web applications and sharable URLs! Like, great for a musical

Great for complex apps in the browser and sharing complex save states! Bad for ordinary, mundane web applications and sharable URLs! Like, great for a musical step sequencer in the browser, bad for a website or HTTP service OTOH, app state on websites of commercial service prodivders might be best represented by a JSON blob anyway. In something like a checkout process or form submit, of course this doesn't matter much. But I prefer human-readable URLs wherever possible. And I implemented a similar pattern once, too. It's a very interesting approach in intself. Relevant POJO state tends to be small enough but long lists or resourcrs in a URL are not supported by most servers and not advisable.