Re: [XHR2] FormData for <form>

Note that you can always do:

fd = new FormData;

That is agreed by everyone to work. The question is how to instantiate
one which is prefilled with the data from a <form>.

/ Jonas

On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Alex Russell <slightlyoff@google.com> wrote:
> I have a preference for the second syntax. These sorts of classes
> should always be "new"-able.
>
> On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> There was some discussions regarding the syntax for generating a
>> FormData object based on the data in an existing <form>. I had
>> proposed the following syntax
>>
>> myformelement.getFormData();
>>
>> however it was pointed out that the downside with this API is that
>> it's not clear that a new FormData object is created every time.
>> Instead the following syntax was proposed:
>>
>> new FormData(myformelement);
>>
>> however I don't see this syntax in the new XHR L2 drafts. Is this
>> merely an oversight or was the omission intentional?
>>
>> I'm fine with either syntax, but since we're getting close to shipping
>> Firefox 4, and I'd like to include this functionality (in fact, it's
>> been shipping for a long time in betas), I'd like to see if how much
>> consensus the various proposals carried.
>>
>> / Jonas
>>
>>
>

Received on Tuesday, 14 September 2010 18:01:18 UTC