[dev] Re: [cvs] commit: agora deletemessage.php editforum.php editmessage.php forums.php message.php threads.php agora/lib Agora.php Forums.php Messages.php agora/templates/message message.html

Marko Djukic marko at oblo.com
Fri Jul 11 10:21:27 PDT 2003


Quoting Chuck Hagenbuch <chuck at horde.org>:

> Quoting Marko Djukic <marko at oblo.com>:
>
> > how big is the benefit of these short get varnames?
>
> It's debateable, but most of it is that it "feels" like a more professional
> application with more compact URLs. Total page size due to shorter URLs is
> also
> a benefit, and would especially come into play for large threads, but is
> secondary.

i was hesistant on using such short var names for readability and but more
importantly what would happen if there were ever blocks which would submit to
the page where they are embedded (poll/ulaform are two that already do) - 'f'
and 'm' can't be used by any other block.

marko


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