- From: Alan Dean <alan.dean@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 10 May 2007 13:38:44 +0100
- To: public-html@w3.org
Hello, I would like to raise the question of <form> methods to the group. Currently, only GET and POST are specified as acceptable method values: see http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#h-17.3 I looked through the WHATWG document and could find no reference to this issue, so I assume that there is no proposal for change at present, see http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Looking at the HTTP/1.1 specification, there is a core standard specifying PUT and DELETE as well, see http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec9.html Given the growing acceptance of REST I would like to propose that these two methods are also incorporated into the html5 specification so that browser-based REST UAs are not forced to implement clientside XmlHttpRequest. This will permit a more graceful degradation of RESTful applications in the face of disabled JavaScript. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/REST http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rest-discuss/ As these two methods are not currently supported in the existing html specification, I can't see a backwards compatibility issue (although others may know more than me in this regard). Consideration might also be made of supporting OPTIONS as well (to facilitate RESTful service discovery). Regards, Alan Dean http://thoughtpad.net/alan-dean
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