The recent increase in questions about form serialization and form submission makes me wonder the following about why the form plugin is not used more:
1. Is it not meeting your needs? 2. Did you not know it exists? 3. Do you prefer not to use plugins? 4. Something else? I also wonder if its 3 methods should just be added to core. It's been pointed out that core's serialize method is somewhat lacking. The form plugin's serialize method handles every case that I've seen questioned on this list. Unfortunately, the two serialize methods differ in their return types which probably adds more confusion. But rather than beef up core's serialize method why not converge the two now and eliminate this confusion? My personal preference would be to move the form plugin methods into core, remove core's existing serialize method and introduce a "serializeToString" (or something like that) that has a string return type in the form of "name=value&name=value". All this would increase the size of core, but only by 2k before packing. I'd love to hear opinions on this. Mike _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
