Re: Restoring PUT and DELETE

On 2011-11-30 22:19, Yehuda Katz wrote:
> Can we revisit the decision to remove the PUT and DELETE verbs from HTML5.
>
> The original rationale for removing it was a lack of use-cases[1], but
> that ticket has since grown a number of use-cases. In particular, my
> work with Rails, which involves us faking PUT and DELETE forms[2], is a
> good example of a large number of people wanting this feature and having
> to apply hacks to get it.
> ...

The problem isn't a lack of use cases but a lack of use cases with a 
precise description about how the feature is going to work.

Examples would help a lot.

Questions that need to be answered are:

- which type of parameter encoding for each method

- which content types to support

- considerations about how this works cross-origin

- discussion how response codes, response payloads etc drive what the 
browser is going to do (think 204 on DELETE, 201 on PUT, etc etc)

Best regards, Julian

Received on Wednesday, 30 November 2011 21:52:21 UTC