- From: David E. Cleary <davec@progress.com>
- Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:27:34 -0500
- To: "Mark Baker" <distobj@acm.org>
- Cc: "Paul Prescod" <paul@prescod.net>, "Tim Bray" <tbray@textuality.com>, <www-forms@w3.org>
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark Baker [mailto:distobj@acm.org] > > I think this statement of yours sums things up for me; > > > XForms is not about submitting name/value pairs. It is about > submitting XML. > > While we added support for legacy servers, that was meant to be > temporary. > > If deprecating GET and urlencoded data is a problem, I would support > > removing them entirely instead of making them something XForms > must support > > moving forward. > > That would satisfy me. But note that if you do this, XForms *cannot* > replace HTML forms, and I'd suggest adding a *prominent* note saying so > to the spec. Right now XForms supports this. If the hangup is over the word Deprecate, maybe there is a better way to signal that that support will be removed in future versions of XForms. David Cleary the Progress Company
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