Where is there documentation on forms? Is there an RFC? Has anyone
started to write up the document that describes the encoding of current
IPP semantics using HTML forms? It is easier to discuss something if
there is some concrete proposal to review.
Below are some comments that I have pulled out of earlier emails.
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Roger D. writes:
However, I am still convinced, after my study today, that we
do not want to use html and forms as the mechanism to generate IPP
requests on the client side. I believe that this is fraught with problems
and will constrain future extendabilty of the standard -- or at best require
awkward and difficult to understand and parse constructs to provide all
of the function we might want in IPP over time.
Bob H. writes:
If one of the formats returned is HTML form, you get what you want, a
collection of attributes, a default value, and many attributes with a list of
potential values. In the HTML form, the default value need not be the
first.