[whatwg] Adding FormData support to <form>

[Michael Nordman]

On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:52 AM, Dmitry Titov <dimich at google.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 8:45 PM, Maciej Stachowiak <mjs at apple.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> On Feb 17, 2010, at 3:15 PM, Jonas Sicking wrote:
>>
>>  The reason this is a function rather than a read-only attribute is to
>>> allow the return FormData to be further modified. I.e. the following
>>> should be allowed:
>>>
>>> fd = myFormElement.getFormData();
>>> fd.append("foo", "bar");
>>> xhr.send(fd);
>>>
>>> If it was a property I would be worried about people expecting the
>>> following to work:
>>> myFormElement.formData.append("foo", "bar");
>>> xhr.send(myFormElement.formData);
>>>
>>> However I don't think there is a good way to make the above work. Thus
>>> my suggestion to use a function instead. I'm writing a prototype
>>> implementation over in [2]
>>>
>>
>> People could imagine that this should work:
>>
>> myFormElement.getFormData().append("foo", "bar");
>> xhr.send(myFormElement.getFormData());
>>
>> In either case, it seems that once they see it doesn't work, they will no
>> longer expect it to work.
>>
>
> Sure, but a better name could help a bit. For example, this produces a
> 'shared' object:
>
> document.getElementById("foo")
>
> while this creates a new one:
>
> myFormElement.getFormData()
>
> It might be ok, but it is a bit inconsistent.
>
> Why not:
> formData = new FormData();
> formData = new FormData(myFormElement);
>

ah... +1 the ctor


>
>
> Regards,
>> Maciej
>>
>>
>
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