- From: Jonas Sicking <jonas@sicking.cc>
- Date: Wed, 17 Feb 2010 15:15:25 -0800
The FormData object [1] is a great way to allow multipart/form-data encoded content to be submitted using XMLHttpRequest. It would be great if it was possible to get a FormData object representing the data contained in a <form>. This in order to allow normal HTML forms being used, but using XMLHttpRequest to submit the form data in order to allow AJAX to be used. So I suggest we add a method like interface HTMLFormElement : HTMLElement { ... FormData getFormData(); ... }; The reason this is a function rather than a read-only attribute is to allow the return FormData to be further modified. I.e. the following should be allowed: fd = myFormElement.getFormData(); fd.append("foo", "bar"); xhr.send(fd); If it was a property I would be worried about people expecting the following to work: myFormElement.formData.append("foo", "bar"); xhr.send(myFormElement.formData); However I don't think there is a good way to make the above work. Thus my suggestion to use a function instead. I'm writing a prototype implementation over in [2] [1] http://dev.w3.org/2006/webapi/XMLHttpRequest-2/Overview.html#the-formdata-interface [2] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546528 / Jonas
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