Re: Re: Re: (Ovid - hand-rolled CGI review) Re: variables not posting?

[dws]

It's intended to be supported in the future, so if you don't start supporting it now, browsers which use it in the future will break your code.

Do I detect the faint scent of some large corporation sneaking this into some specification to guarantee the future obsolescence of everyone else's software? :-(

[turnstep]

No, it's just that the ampersand was a bad choice to use, but the original designers of cgi were doing the best they could. :)