- From: Carl Morris <msftrncs@htcnet.com>
- Date: Mon, 23 Sep 1996 08:15:38 -0500
- To: "Dave the Magni" <darsal@tezcat.com>
- Cc: "WWW HTML List" <www-html@w3.org>
| Second, it's not a great idea. Even the browsers which allow this have | only gone halfway in the execution and have shown no sign of getting it | "right". One would expect that the form data would be reduced to ASCII | and placed in the body of an email message, but in fact it is URL | encoded. Do you propose they do it some otherway... | This is fine for forms where the action sends the data to a script, but | it is not helpful for people. It also has the drawback of eliminating | any HTTP response to the sending of the form data, which confuses some | users into thinking that the form was not sent and sending it again. anyone who writes HTML had better learn a lot about ESCAPING... its a nescecary evil, even in EMAIL... URL encoding is more reliable than using MIME...
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