Jason Johnston wrote:
On Mon, 2005-06-13 at 23:31 +0200, Sylvain Wallez wrote:
Jason Johnston wrote:
The HTML element is also given a "name" attribute with the same value,
which is what is actually used as the parameter name when the form is
submitted. As far as the HTML form is concerned (don't know about your
Ajax work) the id attribute on the HTML element is meaningless.
Right, but CForms produces more @id's than @name's :-)
At least in the HTML styling... no telling what future stylings will produce.
;-)
Hmmm... neither XForms <input> nor XUL's <textbox> have an @name :-)
So now we use getName() to get the value of the id attribute? This
seems to me like you're causing a greater asymmetry in an attempt to
solve a lesser one.
With the renaming of the "id" attribute to "name", we achieve an
increased global consistency.
Ah, OK. The (important!) missing piece in your original message was
that this is a global change to methods *and* attributes, to achieve
more "correct" and convenient semantics. It sounded before like you
were just trying to match the methods to the styling, which rubbed me
wrong. :-)
Yeah, I should have explained that second part also. Sorry for that.
Now that I understand your motives correctly, it makes sense. I think
your deprecation strategy is reasonable.
Great!
Sylvain
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