On 9/25/06, Mike Alsup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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?
Not too much. > 2. Did you not know it exists? Yeah. > 3. Do you prefer not to use plugins? No, I'd like to. > 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. Yeah, I think so. You can see this thread: http://jquery.com/discuss/2006-September/012200/ > 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? I don't see there is something deal with multiple-select situation in forms.js. And serialize( ) in form.js, you return a hash value, and this will only hold one value if the input element has the same name. So I'd like your below idea "introduce a serializeToString", and I think it's better. But in my thread I also point that param() method in jQuery core will only receive jQuery object or hash, but not a string at all. And I think param() method should also be changed. > If these things also can be merged in form.js, I think I'll use it. Just some personal opinions. -- I like python! UliPad <<The Python Editor>>: http://wiki.woodpecker.org.cn/moin/UliPad My Blog: http://www.donews.net/limodou _______________________________________________ jQuery mailing list discuss@jquery.com http://jquery.com/discuss/
