Boris Zbarsky wrote:
On 10/11/09 6:59 AM, Mark Kaplun wrote:
I think that in practice no one is writing his own mime handling
routines to handle the data in a post message, and people just use a
framework which handles it for them.
While this may be true (and I'm not sure it's as true as one would
like) some of these "frameworks" are more or less capable than
others. Some expect the data in a _very_ particular format (such that
changing the order of elements in the submitted data, for example
breaks them); I would not expect them to switch easily between
different enctypes.
I don't know enough about other server languages but I would assume that
handling the post mime type automagically is one of the basic candies
that every modern server language provides.
A surprising amount of form POST processing seems to happen in an exe
on the server, not in any sort of modern scripting language. At least
based on the bugs we've gotten filed whenever we change anything about
it.
-Boris
Boris, I have agreed with your first response that I don't know enough
about all the crazy things that people might be doing, to make this
attribute to disappear. However I don't see how changing the default
mime type will have any affect on the existing web pages and for web
pages which will be authored in the next few years, as long as there are
tested against IE8.
IMHO this attribute is a bug in the specification which is causing
annoyance to any web developer which do not use IDE's to create forms.
Changing the default the way I described might create a different
annoyance, but in my opinion it will be a much lesser one.
