[Bug 12561] Add the @action in the <form> so that there is a way to submit to the same page

https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12561

Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX

--- Comment #37 from Ian 'Hixie' Hickson <ian@hixie.ch> 2011-12-02 18:02:04 UTC ---
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Status: Rejected
Change Description: no spec change
Rationale: Let's cut to the chase here. We can't allow action="" with no value
because it's too confusingly similar to action=" " with a space which has
different behaviour. We can't make action="" and formaction="" different
because that would be ridiculously confusing. For almost all purposes, if you
want to target the same page you can use target="?" or formaction="?". Sure,
there might be cases where that isn't quite as convenient as you might like,
e.g. because you're POSTing to a URL with query parameters. So don't do that.
Put the data in the POST payload, or in the path, or don't use both action=""
and formaction="" in such situations.

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Received on Friday, 2 December 2011 18:02:11 UTC