"David A. Desrosiers" > > I think that it almost always safe to spider the results of > > a form; the only question is whether to post the form in > > the first place.
> ALWAYS post the form data back _first_, before fetching > the results of that form (in the case of a POST). Slight miscommunication on my part. If you have a channel of depth 4, and a form on level 2, then you may or may not want to post that form back. But if you do, there really isn't any doubt that the results of that post should be spidered (until depth 4) like any other page. > doesn't count the logic needed Palm-side to draw form > elements; dropdowns, selects, lists, checkboxes, radio, etc. > and the logic to parse those items (grouped radio > buttons for example, default checkboxes, etc.) That would all be good, but not required. If every input field turned into a text field with default text (even something like "x OR y OR z" for lists or checkboxes), then the form would still be usable. > Exporting a url to memopad doesn't directly equate > to processing form data. Exporting the URL is enough for a GET. For a post, you also have to add data lines for each field and its value. If you can extract variables and make textboxes, then the export isn't much more work. > Polluting MemoDB.pdb with Plucker form data is > also not the best approach to solving the problem. Agreed. I would prefer a plucker-specific database. If backup bit is set, it will still get to the desktop. It might take two syncs instead of one to complete the form request, but it will work. > What if we just had a generalized PlkrFormData.pdb > for Plucker form metadata, and had it keyed > to each doc that needed to seek into it. Great. > Of course, this brings up another issue about > "orphaned" form data, [... populate a form then > delete the doc before sync ] So? One common use of forms is search. In this case, the original context may be utterly irrelevant. If I tell yahoo news that I want information about worms on the space shuttle, then delete today's news articles ... I still want the stories about worms and the space shuttle. If I have to go to an equivalent of AvantGo's form manager, that is perfectly acceptable to me. -jJ _______________________________________________ plucker-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.rubberchicken.org/mailman/listinfo/plucker-list
