Re: [whatwg] A thought:

2005-05-13 Thread James Graham
Kornel Lesinski wrote: On Fri, 13 May 2005 16:56:44 +0100, James Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That seems to be based on the belief that all things which look like links must correspond to idempotent actions. Yes, that is exactly the idea behind it. I don't think this is true and, in general

Re: [whatwg] A thought:

2005-05-13 Thread Olav Junker Kjær
James Graham wrote: That seems to be based on the belief that all things which look like links must correspond to idempotent actions. I don't think this is true and, in general, think that trying to couple the user interface to the underlying protocol is a bad idea. No, its a great idea! ;-) Mos

Re: [whatwg] A thought:

2005-05-13 Thread Kornel Lesinski
On Fri, 13 May 2005 16:56:44 +0100, James Graham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: That seems to be based on the belief that all things which look like links must correspond to idempotent actions. Yes, that is exactly the idea behind it. I don't think this is true and, in general, think that trying to c

Re: [whatwg] A thought:

2005-05-13 Thread James Graham
Henri Sivonen wrote: On May 13, 2005, at 06:28, Michael Gratton wrote: Most web applications I have seen (certainly nearly every one written in Java) do not differentiate between parameters provided by a GET or a POST; you can do either and the application will work in the same way. Of the vario

Re: [whatwg] A thought:

2005-05-13 Thread Michael Gratton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 16:47 +0300, Henri Sivonen wrote: > Of the various server-side frameworks available Java servlets are among > the most cluefully designed when it comes to getting HTTP right. If a > developer calls doPost from doGet, there is nothing the framework > designer can do about it

Re: [whatwg] A thought:

2005-05-13 Thread Henri Sivonen
On May 13, 2005, at 06:28, Michael Gratton wrote: Most web applications I have seen (certainly nearly every one written in Java) do not differentiate between parameters provided by a GET or a POST; you can do either and the application will work in the same way. Of the various server-side framew

[whatwg] Re: Forming Opinions

2005-05-13 Thread Ian Hickson
(In response to http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/20/deviant.html http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/04/27/deviant.html http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/05/04/deviant.html http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2005/05/11/deviant.html ...) First of all, thanks for your comments! I've skipped past the less