Exactly, all Marc is really saying is that a form with a single
NAME="isindex" should generate url?foo instead of url?isindex=foo.
Browsers are still free to do whatever they like with <ISINDEX>.
However, let me also say that I personally would rather see the query
encoding specified in a generic way rather than special case the NAME
(I think we did this already).
I did my little demo to show what you could do if you could query multiple
existing databases from a single document. I would prefer that we don't
special case NAME="isindex".
Just for the record: ISMAP was a hack also, the proper HTTP/1.0 way of
doing this is to serve the image with attribute "Public: SPACEJUMP".
However, when all servers were HTTP/0.9 there was no other choice.
--sanders