- From: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:13:19 -0400 ()
- To: Dave Carter <dxc@ast.cam.ac.uk>
- cc: MegaZone <megazone@livingston.com>, www-html@w3.org
On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, Dave Carter wrote: > But think how fantastically useful it would be to be able to drop an > image, or even a piece of text, into a form. > > Dave Carter In principle user agents could do this with HTML 3.2 using the file upload mechanism and <input type=file>. I had hoped we could generalize TEXTAREA but found little interest in going ahead with this from vendors. HTML 4.0 forms are also still rather weak as compared to 4GL systems. For instance you can't provide a simple order entry form with the capability to insert new rows into a list of line items. People have done this using plugins or Java, but this approach acts as a replacement for HTML forms, without the declarative representation needed for rendering on a wide range of browser devices and media. Regards, -- Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett phone: +44 122 578 2521 (office) +44 385 320 444 (gsm mobile) World Wide Web Consortium (on assignment from HP Labs)
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