- From: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 20:39:56 -0500 (EST)
- To: tvraman@almaden.ibm.com
- Cc: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com (John J. Barton), paul@prescod.net (Paul Prescod), www-forms@w3.org
> 0) The long term goal is for XForms to replace HTML forms. Then you need to fully support GET going forward. > 1) HTTP GET > for submitting large amounts of data is depricated because of its > well-known problems in that area. Of course. But HTML GET forms are not used for submitting large amounts of data. They are used to construct a new URI. > 2) If you read the XForms spec, you'll see that it takes care of > legacy issues and backward compatibility, > as well as transitioning things to the new world. I can't find any discussion of these issues in the latest WD. There's a mention of transitioning from HTML to XForms in section 2, but it doesn't mention GET. Do you have an URL for the section you're referring to? MB -- Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc. Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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