On 8 July 2010 09:04, Rob Nichols <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: >> Rob Nichols wrote: >>> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote: >>>> Whatever the <form> tag's action is. >>> >>> Also, if no action is specified via the form tag, the form is submitted >>> to the current url. >>> >>> So if 'thing/edit/1' contained: >>> >>> <form> >>> <input type="submit" /> >>> </form> >>> >>> The form would be submitted back to 'thing/edit/1' >> >> No. <form> without an action is invalid HTML, so its behavior is >> undefined. An action must always be specified. >> >... > Thank you for that comment on what should happen. However, the fact > remains that if you don't specify a target action, browsers will send > the submitted data to the current url. Don't confuse 'must' with > 'should'.
How do you know that the next version of FF will do that? Have you tested all available browsers? What about Chinese versions? If you develop a website that does not generate valid html then next week an update to IE may break the website and your clients/users will not be happy. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
