How 'bout neither? Furms submit queries; why not stick with the
current query syntax? That is, 'url?query' ... with 'query' looking
something like:
name=value&name=value&name=value
...with the '=' and '&' characters used as reserved characters
This is what we're doing in Mosaic 2.0 at the moment; I was within 24
http://www.ncsa.uiuc.edu/SDG/Software/Mosaic/Docs/fill-out-forms/overview.html
...for details on what we're up to, but note that we're probably going
> * What information do we return in the property list? Complete text
Just name=value pairs. Everything else is irrelevant.
> Perhaps MIME would be a better wrapper instead of SGML tags? Fur example,
We already have an escaping mechanism for queries; how 'bout we just
Cheers,
(escaped as %xx in any of the name or value
hours of sending out a message to this effect when your note arrived
:-). See
to change the checkbox handling back closer to what the HTML+
currently says.
> (form document + input values), or only the essential user-input values?
> it should be easier for MIME to handle the case where the user enters
> "<VALUE>" for an input. Instead of escaping the content, MIME delimiters
> are variable.
use that...
Marc