[miiiiiike]

Paul Ford must spend a non-negligible amount of time sitting around thinking: “What’s the dumbest thing I could get Wired or Bloomberg to publish?”

And to be absolutely pedantic: He shouldn’t be mad about forms and inputs, they can be used with the read-only web (GET params) and have client-side only uses (calculations.)

Given what he’s trying to say, the headline should be: “The ‘HTTP POST’ Method Created the Modern Web. Was It a Big Mistake?”

But what’s a Paul Ford article without a misdirected a torrent of bromide to keep things flowing?

[arcturus17]

Unfortunately, that's the state of much of digital journalism. The incentives (clicks) are simply not aligned with journalistic quality.

[cphoover]

You don't need a `HTTP POST` to update server state this can be done with cookies/headers or the uri (granted doing so in the URI is a CSRF risk). Point being, client originated updates are an inevitability as long as we allow variable data to be passed from the client to the server.