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Monday, January 26, 2004

Merriam-Webster gets a clue

Or at least their web-developers have. I just noticed they've redesigned their web site and now finally use get instead of post for their lookup. Their URL should be yet simpler, but it's better than it was.

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edited: 03:31 (utc-5)

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Filip Salomonsson wrote:

I totally agree, although it should also be noted that even though their forms have been POST, manually whopping the parameters into the url has worked for quite some time. And they can be somewhat trimmed, too: http://m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?amphibrach.

∴ Filip Salomonsson | 26-Jan-2004 9:51am est | #3818

manually whopping the parameters into the url has worked for quite some time

Yeah, I noticed that.

And they can be somewhat trimmed

Awesome, I didn't realize that. I think I may have known that a long time ago, but had forgotten. Thanks.

∴ Keith | 26-Jan-2004 2:15pm est | http://keithdevens.com/ | #3823

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