On Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:33:37 -0400 "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com> wrote:
On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 11:50:33PM -0700, Les Niles wrote:
And regardless, using POST instead ofGET is a fairly simple change. From a pragmatic point of view, there's not much reason not to comply with the published standard, even if its justification is weak.
Actually, alas, this is the crux of the discussion. It is *not* a fairly simple change: you can't POST *from the middle of an email*, which was the desired implementation. If you use POST, the user *has to do another thing*.
Well, yeah, but as I said, I think having the user do another thing actually makes for a much nicer UI. My "simple change" comment was intended to refer to the coding effort. (Hmm... seems like it would be possible to POST from a text/html section in the middle of an email... but I'm sure not going to suggest that. :)
There is much reason not to comply with the published standard: people are stupid. Shame, isn't it?
I'm not sure which stupidity you're talking about. Are you concerned that people will launch the link from the email but then not push the "confirm" (or "cancel") button?
-les