- From: Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de>
- Date: Sun, 16 Dec 2007 15:12:11 +0100
Henri Sivonen wrote:
> On Dec 16, 2007, at 05:28, James M Snell wrote:
>
>> The gist of the idea (which I believe may have been brought up before
>> but I'm not certain) is to allow the use of a URI Template in place of
>> the form element action attribute, and to use form elements to provide
>> the replacement values, e.g.
>>
>> <form template="http://example.org{-prefix|/|foo}?bar={bar}"
>> method="POST">
>> Foo: <input name="foo" type="input" >
>> Bar: <input name="bar" type="input">
>> </form>
>
>
> What's the backward-compatibility story of this feature? (Both behavior
> of URI templates in legacy browsers and ensuring that existing content
> doesn't use braces.)
Braces are not allowed in URIs (in case somebody forgot :-). That's
exactly why URI Templates can use them.
BR, Julian
Received on Sunday, 16 December 2007 06:12:11 UTC