[kdewebdev-webdeveloper] Form Problem

[Eric Laffoon]

Strange,
I've been so deluged with mail I haven't answer on other lists I missed 
this...

On Wednesday 23 February 2005 05:32 am, Hamster wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 14:43:39 +1100
>
> Graeme Nichols <gnichols at tpg.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi H., Thanks for the info and the offer of help but my ISP gives me
> > 10M  of web space and no sefver side scripting facilities at all. I
> > checked  it out with them before I wrote the form. My HTML text book,
> > 'Web  Publishing with HTML 4 in 21 Days by Laura Lemay' indicates that
> > the  mailto: works OK, but, unless I have coded something wrong, it
> > doesn't  work OK.
>
> The problem is that the vast majority of those HTML books are written by
> people who are good at making pretty pages as opposed to people who
> actually have a clue about the technologies they're working with.

LMAO
Well said my dear Hamster. You are a true jewel. Granted a jewel under a lot 
of hair. ;-)
>
> Most of these authors aren't aware that OSs apart from MS exist, and
> think the only two browsers in use are IE and Netscape.
>
> When a book makes a claim that something works, but in practise it
> doesn't, the best thing to do is to view the actual W3C specification
> for HTML.
>
> The forms page is found at
> http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/interact/forms.html#adef-action
>
> For you, the most interesting sentence on that page is where the form
> 'action' is defined. It states:
>
> <quote> User agent behavior for a value other than an HTTP URI is
> undefined. </quote>

Makes you wish you could get a money back guarantee on these books and claim 
it by whacking the author across the eyes with a 2x4 that would imprint "W3C" 
permanently on them doesn't it?
>
> In a nutshell, anything other than action="http://" is not defined by
> the specification and so will be different in each different webbrowser.
> Which is why the mailto: only works for specific combinations of
> webbrowser and mailclient.

There is however a solution where this will work with Javascript. I have it in 
a Javascript book somewhere if you want to use that option. Just ask.
>
> I see someone else has replied suggesting you make use of websites
> offering form processing. Seems to me the best way to go.
>
> If you really run into problems, I can set up a page on my website that
> emails you the results of the form submit. Provided of course you don't
> expect thousands of responses :)
>
> H.
>
Yes, this is very easy to do. You simply set the address to point to a site 
that is not neutered and have it redirect to your result page after emailing 
you. ;-)
-- 
Eric Laffoon
Project Lead - kdewebdev module