[thelist] Web site add on software

Seb seb at members.evolt.org
Thu Jan 10 10:52:54 CST 2002


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Sometime around 16:38 10/01/2002, Anne Thorniley did verily sayeth:
>That reminds me - is it absolutely necessary to specify action in a form
>tag? Everything I've found on the subject says that without an action
>specified, the action defaults to the current document/script/whatever.
>But everything also seems to say it's a required attribute. Is it safe
>to miss it out completely, or is the default action just something that
>most browsers support but not actually in the standard?

Another case of browsers vs. standards.

Standards: "Thou shalt not omit the action attribute."
Browsers: "Yeah, whatever you say buddy. Hey kid, you wanna see how a form 
submits without an action attribute?"

Personally, I'm inclined to agree with the standards. The last thing you 
want to do is get caught out by a browser that actually follows them one day.

Seb.

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