- From: Walter Ian Kaye <walter@natural-innovations.com>
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 10:52:57 -0800
- To: www-html@w3.org
At 1:33a -0800 12/22/98, kgeorge@tcpsoft.com wrote:
>Scott-
>
> The reason that numbers in a web page are essentially text strings
>representing numbers. When you enter "432" in a text box those are the
>characters '4' (52), '3' (51), and '2' (50). Now you might ask, "Why
>doesn't the browser (or why isn't there a feature to) convert the text
>string to a number before the form is posted?" The reason is because
>form data needs to be posted using text strings. This was the way http
>and html were designed. However, it is not too hard to convert the
>ascii string "432" to the integer 432.
And besides, real programmers only need one datatype. <g>
-Walter
o/` you can't always GET what you want
you can't always POST what you want
you can't always HEAD what you want
but if you try sometime
you just might find
you HTTP
o/`
Music by the Rolling Stones
Lyrics by WIK
Received on Tuesday, 22 December 1998 13:54:29 UTC