Right, the xmlHttpRequest spec and HTTP spec support all four methods, while the HTML5 form attribute "method" does not.
On Jun 7, 2011, at 3:45 PM, Sean McArthur wrote: > HTML does not determine HTTP. Those other HTTP actions exist, regardless of > whether they're legal attributes in forms in HTML5. > > > > On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 1:08 PM, gonchuki <[email protected]> wrote: > Actually, only GET and POST are official methods in the HTML5 spec > [1]. PUT and DELETE were there at some point, but have since been > removed so you shouldn't assume that any/all browsers will support it. > Also, I know this holds true for most XHR "1" implementations, not > sure if all the new XHR2 capable browsers implement those other > methods regardless of what the HTML5 spec says. > > [1] > http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/association-of-controls-and-forms.html#attr-fs-method > > > On Jun 6, 7:08 am, Lee <[email protected]> wrote: > > On 06/06/2011 16:06, Tim Wienk wrote: > > > > > If I understood him correctly what he wants is to actually *not* > > > emulate, and use the actual "delete" and "put" methods, and the > > > problem was that it emulates by default and changes your "delete" into > > > a "post". > > > > Exactly. It seems a strange default, to mange HTTP, but I can see the > > potential reasoning sine you pointed out the Rails approach. > > > > Thanks again > > Lee >
