[9912] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
Re: HTTP protocol regarding form elements order
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gregory J. Woodhouse)
Fri Apr 5 14:36:23 1996
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 1996 11:26:28 -0800 (PST)
From: "Gregory J. Woodhouse" <gjw@wnetc.com>
To: Mike Meyer <mwm@contessa.phone.net>
Cc: www-talk@w3.org
In-Reply-To: <19960405.749CC70.A5D5@contessa.phone.net>
Resent-From: www-talk@w3.org
On Fri, 5 Apr 1996, Mike Meyer wrote:
> > No. The form elements can be returned in any order. For example,
>
> The HTML RFC (1866) disagrees with you. In particular, section 8.2.1
> (form submission for the mime type application/x-www-form-urlencoded
> say in point 2:
>
> 2. The fields are listed in the order they appear in the
> document ...
>
> At least one major browser vendor got this wrong once, so I'd avoid depending
> on it if you can.
>
> <mike
>
>
Ah...I see what you mean. I wasn't actually aware that they were required
to be returned in order.What I had in mind was that no information is
lost by reordering the elements...but I guess I was making the tacit
assumption that the NAME attributes would be unique to the form element.
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