[whatwg] <a onlyreplace>

[Tab Atkins Jr.]

2009/10/18 Scott González <scott.gonzalez at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 12:28 PM, Tab Atkins Jr. <jackalmage at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Well, the point is that this should generally act as just an
>> optimization of normal navigation.  Clicking on <a href=foo
>> onlyreplace=bar> should give you the same result as clicking on <a
>> href=foo>, just without the overall page getting flushed.  So the
>> address should update to "http://example.com/foo", etc.
>
> I've only been partially following this thread, so this may have been answered previously. Is this an accurate summary of what you're thinking of?
>
> Clicking <a href="foo"> and <a href="foo" onlyreplace="bar"> would send the exact same headers to the server with the exception of a single extra header for the @onlyreplace version?

Yes.

> In the case of @onlyreplace, would the #bar element end up being replaced, or just its content?

The full element.

> Would the server be expected to reply with <div id="bar">...</dv> or just what would would become bar.innerHTML?

The former.  As well, the server *can* return the whole document, but
is only required to send the requested elements.

~TJ