- From: Gregory J. Woodhouse <gjw@wnetc.com>
- Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:26:28 -0800 (PST)
- To: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
- Cc: www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Mike Meyer wrote: > > No. The form elements can be returned in any order. For example, > > The HTML RFC (1866) disagrees with you. In particular, section 8.2.1 > (form submission for the mime type application/x-www-form-urlencoded > say in point 2: > > 2. The fields are listed in the order they appear in the > document ... > > At least one major browser vendor got this wrong once, so I'd avoid depending > on it if you can. > > <mike > > Ah...I see what you mean. I wasn't actually aware that they were required to be returned in order.What I had in mind was that no information is lost by reordering the elements...but I guess I was making the tacit assumption that the NAME attributes would be unique to the form element. --- Gregory Woodhouse gjw@wnetc.com home page: http://www.wnetc.com/ resource page: http://www.wnetc.com/resource/
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