[whatwg] Is there any reason for the continued existence of enctype attribute at the form element

[Mark Kaplun]

Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> On 10/5/09 12:48 PM, Mark Kaplun wrote:
>> I have only learned now that there is a "text/palin" option that I have
>> never heard of, so maybe I'm wrong, but my impression is that there are
>> only two forms of form, a textual and a file upload. IMHO the browser
>> can inspect the form before submitting it and decide by itself what is
>> the correct encoding to use.
>
> You can use multipart/form-data with a form that doesn't include any 
> file uploads (and people do this).  Presumably they might have reasons 
> for this (e.g. they happen to have a sane multipart MIME parsing 
> library and don't want to deal with the url-encoding mess the 
> application/x-www-form-urlencoded option produces.
>
> -Boris
>   
Fair enough. Can the spec be changed in regard to the default encoding, 
and make it depend on the content of the form instead of being 
application/x-www-form-urlencoded, and then like today, the enctype 
attribute can be used to override the default encoding?

Mark.
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