[whatwg] Adding FormData support to <form>

[Anne van Kesteren]

On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:06:12 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc> wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 11:30 PM, Anne van Kesteren <annevk at opera.com>  
> wrote:
>> On Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:15:25 +0100, Jonas Sicking <jonas at sicking.cc>  
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> So I suggest we add a method like
>>>
>>> interface HTMLFormElement : HTMLElement {
>>>  ...
>>>  FormData getFormData();
>>>  ...
>>> };
>>
>> Should we name it toFormData() instead for consistency with <canvas>?  
>> Or is
>> <canvas> inconsistent with something else?
>
> There are much more functions that are named "getX" than "toX" in the
> DOM. Such as getElementById, getElementsByTagName,
> getBoundingClientRect.

Sure, but this seems more analogous to toDataURL() than to  
getElementById(). YMMV.


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