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

[Mark Kaplun]

Ian Hickson wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Oct 2009, Mark Kaplun wrote:
>  
>> Boris, I have agreed with your first response that I don't know 
>> enough about all the crazy things that people might be doing, to make 
>> this attribute to disappear. However I don't see how changing the 
>> default mime type will have any affect on the existing web pages and 
>> for web pages which will be authored in the next few years, as long 
>> as there are tested against IE8.
>>
>> IMHO this attribute is a bug in the specification which is causing 
>> annoyance to any web developer which do not use IDE's to create 
>> forms. Changing the default the way I described might create a 
>> different annoyance, but in my opinion it will be a much lesser one.
>>     
>
> I've certainl written CGI scripts without libraries where the CGI 
> script only supports one enctype. I doubt I'm alone in this.
>
>   
Ian, if posting was implemented my way (browser selects best encoding as 
default) when you wrote the CGI, your work was harder, easier or no 
change at all?