I'm afraid I have to agree the gain does not merit the effort.

To the average user, I think the query string already looks like it's weird
code stuff (with &=?) so I don't think it being in a different language
would improve things that much.

Marc
On 28 Nov 2014 13:36, "Florian Apolloner" <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
> On Friday, November 28, 2014 11:17:15 AM UTC+1, Jorge C. Leitão wrote:
>>
>> IMO, this lies on the assumption that the Form's field names are never
>> shown to the user. When the form is POST, this assumption is valid.
>> However, in a GET, the field names are presented in the URL, and the
>> assumption breaks. This even exposes serve-side implementation details (the
>> field name of the Form) to the user.
>>
>
> You always expose some server information, even with POST -- you just
> don't see the parameters in the URL
>
>
>> 1. how common is this?
>>
>
> No idea on that, but field names are programmatic identifiers (as you
> said, they are an implementation detail), translating those will break
> loads of things.
>
>
>> 2. wouldn't it add a lot of complexity to JavaScript and CSS,
>> specifically on name selectors?
>>
>
> They wouldn't work anymore unless you send a mapping to the client, again
> exposing server implementation details.
>
>
>> 3. do any other web framework support this?
>>
>
> Not that I am aware.
>
> Could we have some feedback to decide wether it justifies or not to have
>> this in Django?
>>
>
> Personally, I am against it, I don't think that the gains justify the
> effort.
>
> Cheers,
> Florian
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