[desktop-discuss] [website-discuss] Web forms support on opensolaris?

[Stephen Hahn]

* Alan Burlison <Alan.Burlison at sun.com> [2007-12-14 21:03]:
> Stephen Lau wrote:
> 
> > If you do full HTML, you can probably put the form elements in just like 
> > normal.  There isn't an easy way to deploy a script to POST/GET to 
> > though.  If all you're looking to do is submit the form contents to a 
> > list of people (i.e. the membership committee), it might be 
> > easiest/quickest to just put a PHP script somewhere on another site and 
> > POST to that and have it forward the contents out.
> 
> You can put a mailto: url in the action attribute of a form, but it's 
> not exactly recommended practice.
  
  I've been wondering about just have web.opensolaris.org as a
  per-project/CG free-for-all, but I must confess:  can't you do this on
  the client-side with JavaScript, so that the submit can process the
  request, as well as mail it?

  - Stephen

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