Changes between Version 17 and Version 18 of AJAX/Dojo/RefactoredFormSubmit

Timestamp:

Feb 16, 2007, 8:02:04 AM (18 years ago)

Author:

erob@…

Comment:

added a note about IframeTransport for file-uploading support

AJAX/Dojo/RefactoredFormSubmit

@@ -121 +121 @@
 }}}
 
-Notice the absence of the {{{formNode}}} param for {{{postContent}}}, and the presence of {{{dojo.io.encodeForm}}} to parse/encode the form data into 
-a proper format. That is all required for having the {{{XMLHTTPRequest}}}
-object handled by the Dojo toolkit. 
-
-To connect the input submit button with the JS callback, use the following
-line:
-{{{
-#!text/html
-<input type="button" onclick="validate()" id="fooBtn"></input>
-}}}
+Notice the absence of the {{{formNode}}} param for {{{postContent}}}, and the presence of {{{dojo.io.encodeForm}}} to parse/encode the form data into a proper format. That is more than sufficient for validating the 
+form with a {{{XMLHTTPTransport}}}. However, this approach doesn't work with file-uploads. To have file-uploads,
+you could however change the {{{transport}}} line to {{{IframeTransport}}}. Here's a link to the [http://dojotoolkit.org/api/?#dojo.io.IframeTransport IframeTransport api]. 
 
 Have fun! That recipe should work in Firefox 2 and Opera 9.10.
@@ -137 +130 @@
 
  * Usability issues: HTML 4.01 vs XHTML 1.0 strict vs No javascript
- * How to display other mimetype(s) when JSON is not used?  
+ * XMLHTTPTransport doesnt support file-uploading.  
 
 === Notes === 
@@ -147 +140 @@
  * [http://cheeseshop.python.org/pypi/python-cjson/ python-cjson]
  * [http://dojotoolkit.org/ Dojo, the Javascript Toolkit]
+ * [http://dojotoolkit.org/api/ Dojo API Reference]
  * [http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ HTML 4.01 Specification]
  * [http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Reference Core Javascript 1.5 Reference (mozilla)]
  * [http://www.opera.com/docs/specs/opera9/js/ecma/ ECMAScript support in Opera 9]
 
-  
+=== Author ===
+
+Etienne Robillard <erob@cpan.org>