Thomas,
Thanks for your info. Looks like I need to change my SOP.
And you are right, I should find a different list for these questions.
I am using a python web app, but these questions are generic enough to
go somewhere else. Thanks for the kind word and your advice.
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Randy Syring
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Thomas Broyer wrote:
On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:19 PM, Randy Syring <ra...@rcs-comp.com> wrote:
For the last four years, I have always used an empty action attribute on my
form to make it post back to the current URL. I almost always validate my
HTML and this has never come up as a violation. Furthermore, I have read
various people on the web advocating this practice.
Recently, however, I went to use Google Chrome to look at some of my web
apps and I noticed that none of my forms work. In use a <base> tag and
empty form attributes. Whenever I submit a form in Chrome, it gets posted
to the root URL (i.e. what I have in my <base> tag). Am I violating the
spec or is this something Google Chrome got wrong?
You are violating the spec (or, actually, this a bit of a blurry thing
in the spec re. a "same document reference").
What I have works in IE, FF, and Opera.
Yes, because they're violating the spec too. HTML5 defines the form
submission to violate the RFC 3986 to make it work like IE, FF and
Opera:
http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/forms.html#form-submission-algorithm (step 9)
The comments there (an HTML comment, look at the source of the page) says:
<!-- Don't ask me why. But that's what IE does. It even treats
action="" differently from action=" " or action="#" (the latter
two resolve to the base URL, the first one resolves to the doc
URL). And other browsers concur. It is even required, see e.g.
http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7763
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=297761
-->
(I'm not sure web-sig is the appropriate list for these questions, as
they're unrelated to Python; maybe http://www.whatwg.org/mailing-list
or http://forums.whatwg.org/ )
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