[whatwg] Submitting form question

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:09 PM, Aryeh Gregor <Simetrical+w3c at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 9:06 AM, ?<Yael.Aharon at nokia.com> wrote:
>> When submitting a form, whose method is "GET" and action is identical to the
>> current location, except for the fragment, should that trigger reloading the
>> page, or simply navigating to the fragment?
>
> As I'm reading the spec, you're doing "Mutate action" in step 19 here:
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#form-submission-algorithm
>
> Then in the navigation algorithm, step 7 says you just navigate to the
> new fragment and don't reload the page:
>
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/history.html#navigate
>
>> The background for my question is in the analysis done in
>> <          >
>
> Your conclusion appears to match mine, if I'm reading you right.
> HTML5 is confusing sometimes, but it sure is precise.
>



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