- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Tue, 15 Aug 2006 09:58:40 +0000 (UTC)
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=286914 > > Note comment from the XStandard plugin developers about submitting > form elements inside an OBJECT with content shown by plugin or UA. > > I have been discussing this with among others Anne van Kesteren, and > I'd like more views on this.. > > - OBJECT is part of forms since HTML4. That means the plugin or object > content can provide a name/value pair for a form submit. (I don't know > if any implementations of this exist but it is clearly the intent of > the HTML4 spec) > > - OBJECT contents are meant to be used instead of the OBJECT if it > can't be rendered, not as well as. > > - If you look at the XStandard use case and proposed markup it looks > like a pretty elegant solution to me. XStandard is a rich text editor > creating XHTML output. They want to embed the editor with code > somewhat like the following: > > <object type="application/x-standard" name="document"> > <textarea name="document"></textarea> > </object> > > Naturally, this only works if the UA sends *either* name/value from > OBJECT *or* name/value from TEXTAREA (or the server does some extra > logic to try to distinguish the duplicated successful name/value pairs > and pick the correct one). > > Any thoughts? The simplest solution seems to be just to use a different name for the <object> and the <textarea>. Since the UA will only submit the <object> if it supports it, the server can easily tell which one it should use. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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