- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:28:12 +0000 (UTC)
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006, Charles Iliya Krempeaux wrote: > > One use case, from my point-of-view, was to allow for non-networked form > submits The solution is to use a scripting language, IMHO. > What really motivated me to think about it is that is that I was writing > a blog post about how to create HTML e-mail signatures with hCards built > into them. > > I wanted to include a form to help them do this. The reader would fill > in their name, e-mail address, etc, and it would generate HTML code they > could use for their HTML e-mail signature. > > However, I didn't want the form to make a request back to my server. > (Because people could be reading this in their feed reader were they > have the blog post cached from my feed.) I wanted it to be entirely > self contained within the blog post. > > So, as you mentioned, one solution is JavaScript. However, JavaScript > has a couple problem. #1: It complex. (Yes... I'm lazy :-) ) #2: Not > all blog readers will allow the execution of JavaScript. Not all readers will allow form submission, or data: URIs, either. It seems that you'd very quickly run against limitations of a templating solution, and that the complexity of such a solution isn't worth the limited use it would get. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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