http://www.elharo.com/blog/pop-culture/music/2006/10/25/bat-out-of-hell-iii/ Ranting and Raving Tue, 07 Oct 2008 20:02:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 http://www.elharo.com/blog/pop-culture/music/2006/10/25/bat-out-of-hell-iii/#comment-17480 The Cafes » POST Considered Inconvenient Fri, 27 Oct 2006 14:17:38 +0000 http://www.elharo.com/blog/pop-culture/2006/10/25/bat-out-of-hell-iii/#comment-17480 [...] The POST method is vastly overused in HTML forms, with negative consequences for the user experience. POST requests cannot be bookmarked, linked to, indexed, searched, or cached. For example, recently I wanted to link to a list of top independent albums from RIAA Radar. However I couldn’t becuase the search request was sent via POST. The URL was http://www.riaaradar.com/search.asp, but there was nothing in the URL to indicate whether I was searching for Black Box Recorder or Britney Spears. [...] [...] The POST method is vastly overused in HTML forms, with negative consequences for the user experience. POST requests cannot be bookmarked, linked to, indexed, searched, or cached. For example, recently I wanted to link to a list of top independent albums from RIAA Radar. However I couldn’t becuase the search request was sent via POST. The URL was http://www.riaaradar.com/search.asp, but there was nothing in the URL to indicate whether I was searching for Black Box Recorder or Britney Spears. [...]

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