[whatwg] Forms and POST'ing to data: URL's

[Charles Iliya Krempeaux]

Hello,

I was look at the "submitting and encoding form data set" for the "data:
URL"...

http://whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/#for-data

... and noticed that (at least when I read it), there does NOT seem to be a
way to include values from multiple inputs.

Let me elaborate with an example.  Consider the example of generating some
kind of letter where you fill in the blanks.  (I'll show a rather simple
example here.)

<form method="POST" action="### DATA URL HERE ###">

    <input type="text" name="given_name" />

    <input type="text" name="family_name" />

    <input type="submit" value="generate letter" />

</form>

How would you get the value of "given_name" and "family_name" into the data
URL?

What I want is something like...

<form method="POST" action="data:,To whom it may concern.  My give name is
'%%{given_name}' and my family name is '%%{family_name}'.  Sincerely,
%%{given_name} %%{family_name}">

    <input type="text" name="given_name" />

    <input type="text" name="family_name" />

    <input type="submit" value="generate letter" />

</form>

(Where %%{given_name} and %%%%{given_name} would include the value from the
input text box named "given_name".  With the first form being singly URI
encoded, and the second form being doubly URI encoded.)

Is there any way of doing anything like this?  Is there any plans on doing
anything like this?


-- 
    Charles Iliya Krempeaux, B.Sc.

    charles @ reptile.ca
    supercanadian @ gmail.com

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