- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 14:25:04 -0700
- To: Forms WG <public-forms@w3.org>
Thanks, my bad. -Erik Mark Birbeck wrote: > Hi Erik, > > "get" is the default in HTML: > > <http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#adef-method> > > Combined with a default of @replace="all" it means that, with Steven's > suggestion, we would have almost completely replicated the behaviour > of HTML forms . (We'd also need to add that @action defaults to "" to > really finish it.) > > Regards, > > Mark > > On 08/10/2007, Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org> wrote: >> It's a tough call. >> >> Most of our use cases at Orbeon involve "post" (more rarely "put") >> because that's how you can send out XML to services out there, and as >> pointed out "get" handles name/value pairs only. Finally, for >> compatibility with HTML forms' common use cases, another reasonable >> default would be "form-data-post". >> >> It doesn't seem that HTML forms have an actual default here, if I read >> correctly: >> >> http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/interact/forms.html#submit-format >> >> So rather than having a non-obvious default, I am leaning towards >> thinking that maybe we should simply not have a default and make/keep >> the method attribute required. >> >> -Erik >> >> Klotz, Leigh wrote: >>> Originally [1] post was the default but it was removed [2] when we >>> changed from submitInfo to submission. >>> >>> [1] >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xforms-20020118/slice3.html#structure-model-submitInfo >>> [2] >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/2002/WD-xforms-20020821/slice3.html#structure-model-submission >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >>> *From:* public-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:public-forms-request@w3.org] >>> *On Behalf Of *John Boyer >>> *Sent:* Monday, October 08, 2007 7:32 AM >>> *To:* Steven Pemberton >>> *Cc:* Forms WG; public-forms-request@w3.org >>> *Subject:* Re: Quick proposal: method="get" be default on submission element >>> >>> >>> Hi Steven, >>> >>> Having a default seems like a great idea. >>> At first, "get" seemed like a good choice, but then I realized that we >>> are setting the default in such a way that transmission of tag value >>> pairs, not XML, is the default. From that point of view, wouldn't >>> "post" be the better default? >>> >>> Cheers, >>> John M. Boyer, Ph.D. >>> STSM: Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher >>> Chair, W3C Forms Working Group >>> Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software >>> IBM Victoria Software Lab >>> E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com >>> >>> Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> *"Steven Pemberton" <steven.pemberton@cwi.nl>* >>> Sent by: public-forms-request@w3.org >>> >>> 10/05/2007 07:31 AM >>> >>> >>> To >>> "Forms WG" <public-forms@w3.org> >>> cc >>> >>> Subject >>> Quick proposal: method="get" be default on submission element >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> While writing examples for the submission section, it struck me that we >>> may as well have *some* default for submission@method, and since it >>> usually seems to be get, I would like to propose that. Then the simplest >>> submission would be something like: >>> >>> <submission action="http://www.example.com/search" /> >>> >>> Steven >>> >>> >> >> -- >> Erik Bruchez's Ponderings >> http://erik.bruchez.name/ >> >> > > -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/
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