Why I Refuse to Add Query Strings to URLs: A Web Development Philosophy
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susam
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Summary
Susam Pal reflects on Chris Morgan's blog post about banning query strings in URLs. The author, a systems programmer with a background in C and C++, discusses web development practices, specifically the use of query strings in URLs, and argues against their unnecessary addition. The post explores web design philosophy, URL best practices, and the author's personal stance on maintaining clean, semantic URLs without query parameters.
Key quotes
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Chris is someone whose Internet comments I have been reading for about half a decade now.
I am by no means a web developer. I have spent most of my professional life doing systems programming in C and C++.
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