Re: XML input control

On 27.03.2007, at 14:58, Anne van Kesteren wrote:

>
> On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 14:54:38 +0200, Henrik Dvergsdal  
> <henrik.dvergsdal@hibo.no> wrote:
>> OK, I guess you're right. What if we restrict it to the post  
>> method and  the "multipart/form-data" Content type?
>
> Everyone can make arbitrary POST requests. By doing it from the  
> commandline or if it really has to come from the page by running a  
> bookmarklet or something that does some XMLHttpRequest magic.

+1

You absolutely HAVE to check any input from the user...

> Anyway, http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#accept  
> should address what you ask for, although I think people will want  
> to have a bit more control over how such an editor works.

+1

I say such a control is impossible. Not in the "I don't know how so I  
say it's impossible" way but in the real "Not going to work"  
impossible way. Assuming you create a fully working WYSIWYG editor  
which can be styled (how? extensions to css as well? Sub-elements?)  
and customized (with like 100 attributes ranging from  
boldbutton="yes" to output="xhtml-strict") you're still not targeting  
100% of users. Someone wants a feature which we didn't think of and  
we're back to native control vs. JavaScript implementation vs. XUL  
implementation...

Best,
Alex