- From: Philip Taylor <excors+whatwg@gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2007 23:49:36 +0100
WF2 says: "When the [form element's action] attribute is absent, UAs must act as if the action attribute was the empty string, which is a relative URI reference, and would thus point to the current document (or the specified base URI, if any)." But: http://software.hixie.ch/utilities/js/live-dom-viewer/?%3C%21DOCTYPE%20html%3E%0D%0A%3Cbase%20href%3D%22http%3A//google.com%22%3E%3Cform%3E%3Cinput%20type%3Dsubmit%3E In IE7, FF2, FF3, Opera 9.2, it ignores the base URI and always submits to the current page. In Safari 3, it does take account of the base URI. In all, <form action=""> does the same as <form>. In all, <form action="."> does take account of the base URI. Perhaps it would be sensible to follow the majority. -- Philip Taylor excors at gmail.com
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