The Icon Bar: News and features: RISCOS Ltd survey online
Posted by Richard Goodwin on 17:03, 20/3/2001
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As announced on comp.sys.acorn.announce, RISCOS Ltd. have a survey up on their site, " In order that we can provide the best service to our users". The survey, which asks about what hardware and software you're using, and what you intend to upgrade to in the near future, is designed "to build an accurate picture of who the current RISC OS users are and what they are expecting from RISC OS in the future". The form does require both a valid name and email address, but "replies will not be passed on to any third parties, so please fill in your name and email details to enable us to correlate our records. You will not be contacted by anyone else other than RISCOS Ltd as a result of completing the survey." The web page further stresses that the individual details will not be passed to any third party. Link: RISCOS Ltd survey
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(18:32 20/3/2001)
Rob Kendrick (15:17 21/3/2001)
Gerph (17:05 21/3/2001)
Richard Goodwin (11:19 22/3/2001)
Joseph Heenan (11:25 22/3/2001)
Richard Goodwin (12:10 22/3/2001)
Rob Kendrick (12:46 22/3/2001)
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march |
Message #88386, posted at 18:32, 20/3/2001 |
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and has been there since late sunday, 11th.
wonder when the next announcement appears, which was "next ten days or so" from 9th ...
march.
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Rob Kendrick |
Message #88387, posted at 15:17, 21/3/2001, in reply to message #88386 |
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It just goes to show how unorganised they are ;-)
I like the way the form's method is 'get'. That's just the icing the the cake of hilarity. |
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Gerph |
Message #88388, posted at 17:05, 21/3/2001, in reply to message #88387 |
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There's nothing wrong with using GET. You'll end up with a long URI, but since there's no limit to the length of URIs that shouldn't be a problem. And since the page it goes to doesn't change, GET is actually more accurate.
PUT would have been more sensible, in some respects.
As for the 'ten days or so'. What does 'or so...' mean ? It means 'longer than that'. So, it being the 21st isn't really that far out.
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #88389, posted at 11:19, 22/3/2001, in reply to message #88388 |
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As we've found on these very pages, in the real world there is a limit to the length of data that can be posted using the GET method, especially using RISC OS browsers; although the users of these browsers are the target audience for the survey, the questions on the survey page are unlikely to cause too many probelms. |
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Joseph Heenan |
Message #88390, posted at 11:25, 22/3/2001, in reply to message #88389 |
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There is a limit on the URI length. I think it's the HTTP RFC that states you don't have to support more than 512 bytes. Oregano & IE 5 limit them to that length, I believe netscape allows longer ones. |
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Richard Goodwin |
Message #88391, posted at 12:10, 22/3/2001, in reply to message #88390 |
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Jinx ;) |
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Rob Kendrick |
Message #88392, posted at 12:46, 22/3/2001, in reply to message #88391 |
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The HTTP RFC indicates that URIs /CAN/ be of unbounded size, and both servers and clients /SHOULD/ be able to handle URIs of unbounded size. None of the RISC OS browsers do, IIRC, which was the point I was making.6
I realistic limit tends to be 4096 (which is what Opera and Netscape limit to, IIRC, and most high-end webservers allocate by default [only allocating a larger block if required]) |
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