- From: Martin J. Dürst <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
- Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2013 19:06:57 +0900
- To: Robin Berjon <robin@w3.org>
- CC: Markus Lanthaler <markus.lanthaler@gmx.net>, 'Martynas Jusevičius' <martynas@graphity.org>, "'Henry S. Thompson'" <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk>, www-tag@w3.org
On 2013/11/06 18:20, Robin Berjon wrote: > On 06/11/2013 06:50 , "Martin J. Dürst" wrote: >> I'm not sure which hack (or hacks) Rails uses or has been used (Yehuda >> will know), but as Markus also explains below, if HTML/browsers >> implemented basic HTTP methods such as DELETE, hacks such as >> X-HTTP-Method-Override wouldn't be necessary. >> (...) >> TAG, please don't shoot the messenger, but try to address the core >> problem. > > I don't know to which degree this is a TAG problem to solve. Valid point. I didn't mean that the TAG is solely and fully responsible to solve this problem. I just meant it in the sense of "if you want to push, please push in the right direction". > There is > some modicum of interest in supporting at least PUT and DELETE in forms > (as indicated by several links previously provided) and it is clearly > demonstrated that people use those methods on the server side rather > extensively. It's also quite clear from example such as Rails that client-side Web applications/frameworks *would* extensively use these methods if only they *could*. > There is, however, neither consensus nor sustained drive behind solving > this, and a number of issues that need addressing. Maybe the TAG can help? Regards, Martin.
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