Hi Mike, Mike Marchywka wrote: > > There is also a trivial but annoying limitation with some GUI-only sites > that you can't post a link ( in a forum like this) to a particular result > and you need to write a paragraph explaining how to find some simple > thing like a particular article or molecule. > A simple API based on http GET requests normally lends itself to tractable > link creation.
The annoyance may be trivial, but the problem isn't. This is a major problem with "Web 2.0" approaches. And, as a programmer, you're very much limited in your use of GET: multiple step forms (e.g., wizards) and form inputs that accept large datasets (e.g., textarea tags) can't easily be placed/replicated in a single URI. You'll end up needing to store steps and data somewhere. But, if the endpoint is all that matters, simply store the results in a temporary file and link to that. Cheers, Jeff -- J.W. Bizzaro Bioinformatics Organization, Inc. (Bioinformatics.Org) E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Phone: +1 978 562 4800 -- _______________________________________________ BBB mailing list [email protected] http://www.bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/bbb
