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I give... (Score:1)

by phillup (4419)

Why?

What problem does this avoid/solve?

I ask because I've always provided a name attribute, and not had any problems... (but I'm blissfully able to avoid IE, so that may be the reason I have no problem... intranet development is much nicer than Internet development :-))

TIA
- Re:I give... (Score:2)
  
  by gav (2710)
  
  Why?
  
  Firstly it's a extra thing you don't need, secondly it makes the resulting URL (if you use GET) much nicer (no image.x/image.y params).
  - Re:I give... (Score:2)
    
    by Purdy (2383)
    
    You use GET? ;)
    - Re:I give... (Score:2)
      
      by vsergu (505)
      
      GET is pretty normal for many things, especially searches (see Google, for example).
      - Re:I give... (Score:2)
        
        by gav (2710)
        
        Using GET also gives you bookmarkable URLs and cachability (if you send the right headers).
        You're supposed to use GET for any request that doesn't change anything, eg. search results. See:
        
        Forms: GET and POST [w3.org]
        
        RFC2616: Safe and Idempotent Methods [w3.org]

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