- From: <tvraman@almaden.ibm.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 16:31:25 -0800
- To: Mark Baker <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com (John J. Barton), paul@prescod.net (Paul Prescod), www-forms@w3.org
This is gross miscommunicatio.
XForms depricates HTTP GET
--depricates means we let you use it --but advise against it.
So how did this ever get interpreted as "XForms doesn't support GET"?
Looks like the classic "how many people does it take to change a light
bulb on the Internet" thread.
Mark Baker writes:
> So are XForms expecting to replace HTML forms? When I was in the HTML
> WG, while XForms work was happening there, I didn't recall any mention
> of this.
>
> If XForms doesn't support GET, HTML forms will always need to exist and
> be incorporated into any spec that XForms wants to be integrated into
> (such as a future XHTML version). But I could see HTML forms being
> used primarily for the GET method, while XForms were used exclusively
> for POST (and maybe PUT 8-). That would be fine.
>
> MB
> --
> Mark Baker, Chief Science Officer, Planetfred, Inc.
> Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA. mbaker@planetfred.com
> http://www.markbaker.ca http://www.planetfred.com
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