- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2004 23:56:14 +0000 (UTC)
On Fri, 27 Aug 2004, [ISO-8859-1] Olav Junker Kj?r wrote: > > > > But in any case, I've now removed the entire FormImplementation > > interface, in favour of XMLHttpRequest in the Web Apps draft now. > > (There wasn't anything that it could do which XMLHttpRequest couldn't > > do better, except that it was one call, and we can always define a > > wrapper for XMLHttpRequest later if required.) > > I wonder if it would be useful with a somewhat higher level interface > for posting data without worring about encoding or transport. The > interface could take a collection of (name, value) pairs as input and > would present the response in the same way, if the server returned xml > formdata or something similar. Yeah, that was my thinking behind the original API. I don't know whether it is worth adding an extension to XMLHttpRequest to do this though. > This might be useful for issues with complex overlapping forms, like the case > with postcode or partnumber lookup as part of a larger form. Well, this is somewhat possible in WF2 already (although I need to make the form="" attribute take more than one value). > This would allow much freedom in constructing forms orthogonal to the > document structure. It could also be used for constructing forms where > the controls are not actual input controls but some other custom dhtml. > (It could even be used as a limited messaging or RPC client.) True. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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