On Monday 30 June 2003 2:57 pm, Neil Schemenauer wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2003 at 02:44:22PM -0400, Mark Bucciarelli wrote:
> > however, it's not clear to me how using form tokens would help.
> >
> > from a user experience, if they click save, back, then save
> > again, the second save click should have the same behavior as the
> > first.  at least that would be this user's expectation.
>
> I guess it's a matter of opinion.  IMHO, the user cannot expect to
> use the back button to go back and re-submit a form that modified
> the DB. Maybe that opinion is a result of working on systems were
> the forms are data driven.

So the behavior of the save button depends on the system state?
That's more complexity than I want my users to deal with.  ;)

> In any case, I don't like the underscore in the path.  We generally
> use:
>
>     /something/new

Where does the new method live?  If these are my url components

/user/date - displays calendar
/user/date/appointment_recno - displays that appointment

and i were to use /user/date/new, DateUI object would need a new
method, right?

Mark