Re: heretical suggestion

Dave Raggett (dsr@hplb.hpl.hp.com)
Mon, 28 Mar 1994 14:28:00 --100


> On a more serious (and somewhat unrelated) note:
> I would really like to get forms clients to send the
> value of the "submit" button selected to the server. This
> will enable multiple "submit" buttons to performs different functions
> on the same data. Maybe a separate attribute is needed to specify
> whether or not to send the submit value so that existing forms
> are not broken. There was alot of discussion about this when
> Xmosaic forms first came out but I don't think anything happened
> with it.

This is now part of the HTML+ spec, and will soon appear in Mosaic.

Dave Raggett