+1, although I'd say it a bit differently. Doing it in script precludes unintended reuse, e.g., for accessibility, search engines, and so forth; it's not a good solution *if* there are compelling use cases for this, but we haven't seen those yet AFAIK. Cheers, On 29/10/2008, at 6:20 AM, Ian Hickson wrote: > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007, Jerome Louvel wrote: >> >> Even though the URI template RFC is not finalized yet, we already >> have a >> complete support for it, on the server-side, in the Restlet >> framework. >> We happily use them for our URI-based routing and I think they add >> a lot >> of expressiveness while keeping a simple syntax. Usage example: >> http://www.restlet.org/tutorial#part11 >> >> They are also supported in WADL, the RESTful description language, >> and >> in the OpenSearch specification. Extending their usage to HTML forms >> sounds like a logical and useful step. > > It seems to me like URI templates can be trivially done from script > and > from the server side already; given the poor backwards-compatibility > story > of URI templates, what do we gain from adding it to the language? > > -- > Ian Hickson U+1047E ) > \._.,--....,'``. fL > http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _ > \ ;`._ ,. > Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'-- > (,_..'`-.;.' > -- Mark Nottingham http://www.mnot.net/Received on Friday, 31 October 2008 22:38:20 GMT
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