Brain on Fire » Blog Tim McCormack says words

I'm having difficulty deciding what is the best approach to returning from a POST request to one's web app. I'd like to deliver messages to the user about the results of the request, I want to avoid some nasty POST-related browser behavior, and proper bookmarking would be sweet, too. Unfortunately, it seems I can only have 2 out of the 3 with any given strategy.

The events of the recent LiveJournal mass deletion highlight an oft-overlooked aspect of community-driven websites: Form overrides function.