Note that you can always do: fd = new FormData;
That is agreed by everyone to work. The question is how to instantiate one which is prefilled with the data from a <form>. / Jonas On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:55 AM, Alex Russell <slightly...@google.com> wrote: > I have a preference for the second syntax. These sorts of classes > should always be "new"-able. > > On Tue, Sep 14, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Jonas Sicking <jo...@sicking.cc> wrote: >> Hi All, >> >> There was some discussions regarding the syntax for generating a >> FormData object based on the data in an existing <form>. I had >> proposed the following syntax >> >> myformelement.getFormData(); >> >> however it was pointed out that the downside with this API is that >> it's not clear that a new FormData object is created every time. >> Instead the following syntax was proposed: >> >> new FormData(myformelement); >> >> however I don't see this syntax in the new XHR L2 drafts. Is this >> merely an oversight or was the omission intentional? >> >> I'm fine with either syntax, but since we're getting close to shipping >> Firefox 4, and I'd like to include this functionality (in fact, it's >> been shipping for a long time in betas), I'd like to see if how much >> consensus the various proposals carried. >> >> / Jonas >> >> >