Requested change to FORMs

I'd like to request a simple change to forms - in 3.2 would be nice, though
Cougar is probably more likely:

Using Cougar as a basis this is the current form:

<!ATTLIST FORM
        action    %URL           #REQUIRED  -- server-side form handler --
        method    (%HTTP-Method) GET        -- see HTTP specification --
        enctype   %Content-Type; "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        onSubmit  %script        #IMPLIED   -- intrinsic event --
        >

I'd like to see this:

<!ATTLIST FORM
        action    %URL           #REQUIRED  -- server-side form handler --
        method    (%HTTP-Method) GET        -- see HTTP specification --
        enctype   %Content-Type; "application/x-www-form-urlencoded"
        onSubmit  %script        #IMPLIED   -- intrinsic event --
        name  CDATA #IMPLIED
        >

Why?  For use with JavaScript.  It is easier programaticaly to track 
named elements.  So say I way to write to a text box:

<FORM NAME=FOO>
<INPUT TYPE=TEXT NAME=BAR SIZE=30>
</FORM>

The scipt and use 'document.foo.bar.value' to target form 'foo' item 'bar'.

Without name, as it is, the first form in a document can be accessed as
'document.forms[0].bar.value' using the forms array, but this is clumsy and
subject to breaking if forms are reordered.  The NAME on a FORM works today
in Mozilla, so it has merit for 3.2.  But wider scripting support seems
withheld to Cougar.

-MZ
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Received on Thursday, 5 September 1996 12:30:04 UTC