- From: Jon Barnett <jonbarnett@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:03:10 -0500
- To: "Garrett Smith" <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
WF2 describes for encoding types than HTML4
On 8/16/07, Garrett Smith <dhtmlkitchen@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Proposal:
>
> interface HTMLFormElement {
> String getDataSetString
> String toJSONString
> };
>
> toJSONString would return an object literal that contains the FORM
> element's successful controls, using names as key and an LIST for each
> key's value.
Instead of this, would it be useful/possible to make JSON an encoding
type? Is there a standard/common JSON MIME type? application/x-json?
>
> getDataSetString() would return a serialized data set representation
> of the FORM's successful controls. It would look just like what you
> see in a GET query string or a POST body.
Would this string be encoded according to form.enctype? Should it (be
overloaded to) accept a string argument to specify an enctype?
>
> For Binary Data, you can encode as JS escapes.
>
any method to make it easier for Javascript to upload a file would be
fantastic. You should see the nasty hacks I use for this today
(actually, this afternoon...) - my hack involves changing the action
and target of a form, posting to a hidden iframe, and changing the
target and action back.
--
Jon Barnett
Received on Friday, 17 August 2007 00:03:16 UTC