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Forms support in clients
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gavin Nicol)
Sat Sep 24 15:31:12 1994
Date: Sat, 24 Sep 1994 16:18:46 +0200
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From: gtn@ebt.com (Gavin Nicol)
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Has anyone thought of allowing text substitution using forms? For
example:
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "html.dtd">
<HEAD>
<TITLE>Search Form</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<HR>
<H1>Search Form</H1>
The following is a simple search template. Please fill in the fields.
<P>
<FORM ACTION="http://foo/$doc?$sstr" METHOD=GET>
Enter your query below.
<INPUT TYPE="text" ID="sstr" NAME="Search string" MAXLENGTH=80><P>
<INPUT TYPE="text" ID="doc" NAME="Document Name" MAXLENGTH=80><P>
<INPUT TYPE="submit" NAME="Send Request">
</FORM>
</BODY>
ID is just an example. Ideally we should use NAME. Such a scheme would
add a huge amount of flexibility to forms support at little cost I
think. Looking at the code in Mosaic that handles forms, the changes
appear to be simple enough...
