[whatwg] Re: HTTP 205 response

Ian Hickson ian at hixie.ch
Mon Apr 25 16:23:11 PDT 2005


On Mon, 25 Apr 2005, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
>
> Step 8 at http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#form-submission
> doesn't seem particularly well-defined to me.  In particular,
> 
> 1)  There is no definition of the term "form" here (if there is one
>     elsewhere in the specification, please link to it).  Would a form in
>     a Flash plugin be considered a form?  What about XForms?  What about
>     other languages (eg XUL) defining HTML-form-like semantics?

Changed to specifically refer to <form> elements.


> 2)  It's not clear to me why simply resetting forms to their current
>     defaultValues (as opposed to their initial defaultValues) follows
>     the HTTP specification being cited

Changed to say that the requirement in WF2 is based on the HTTP one, but 
that the HTTP one is vague.


> See also https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=198309 for some
> discussion on the issue.

Did you have any specific comments in mind?


Thanks for your input, I have updated the spec accordingly. Please let me 
know if there's anything that could be improved.

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