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Re: Double the Fun
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Tue, 1 Aug 2000 01:08:32 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Todd Lehman writes:
> One thing the preview screens makes possible now is putting a special single-
> use code into the form -- something that could be a hidden field so that if
> the button was clicked twice from that page, the second time it was received,
> it could just be ignored...since the whole page is a hidden form anyway.
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> Aside from a post-without-preview, do you think that would help?
That sounds really really slick. But why bother? Isn't it way easier to just
give us two buttons than put a bunch of special purpose code in place for that
use? Don't outthink yourself, and don't try to make things foolproof, fools
are too clever. That's my advice... KISS.
++Lar
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| (...) Having two buttons (rather than just one) wouldn't solve the problem that it would solve -- i.e., the problem of accidental double-posting. Only way AFAIK to solve that is to embed a unique code into the posting form or to compare new incoming (...) (24 years ago, 1-Aug-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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| (...) One thing the preview screens makes possible now is putting a special single- use code into the form -- something that could be a hidden field so that if the button was clicked twice from that page, the second time it was received, it could (...) (24 years ago, 31-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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