Re: [Webware-discuss] use of : in field names

2002-02-28 Thread Ian Bicking
You can use spaces or dashes or probably other punctuation too -- so there's no lack of possibilities. And when you start doubling them for a different meaning, you get just that much more information packed in there. On Thu, 2002-02-28 at 06:14, Chuck Esterbrook wrote: > On Tuesday 26 February

Re: [Webware-discuss] use of : in field names

2002-02-28 Thread Chuck Esterbrook
On Tuesday 26 February 2002 04:05 pm, Luke Opperman wrote: > My use of them right now is to namespace my form variables, > so that a page can have many modules that are unaware of > each other, and all be submitted at once (the user can > change a value in more than one module without refreshing >

Re: [Webware-discuss] use of : in field names

2002-02-26 Thread Luke Opperman
--- Jeffrey P Shell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Nope. Zope uses colons all the time, and has done so > since the Bobo days. > (they're used in the publishing machinery to marshal form > data into simple > python objects:: > > ) That's what I recalled seeing previously on the list (I'm not a z

Re: [Webware-discuss] use of : in field names

2002-02-26 Thread Jeffrey P Shell
On 2/26/02 4:00 PM, "Luke Opperman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hello everyone - > > Coming tangential to a number of posts recently (the > case-insensitivity one, and something about PHP i think), > I'm curious people's thoughts on using colons (:) in form > field names. Browsers I've tested s

[Webware-discuss] use of : in field names

2002-02-26 Thread Luke Opperman
hello everyone - Coming tangential to a number of posts recently (the case-insensitivity one, and something about PHP i think), I'm curious people's thoughts on using colons (:) in form field names. Browsers I've tested seem to escape these safely, so are there any issues I'm setting myself up fo