rest/forms-brainstorming

Forms Brainstorming

This page collects ideas from forms-examples how to best encode form data into a microformat

Proposal A: DETH - Dictionaries Encoding/Transmitting HTML

Rules (Strawman)

1. Only use XHTML Basic Forms Module
2. Must use action with appropriate URI (no scripts)
3. Recommend: use a label with every input
4. Make the for of the label match the id of input
5. Group label with input using

6. Always place submit and reset outside grouping

Questions for further research

1. How to specify whether a field is optional or required?

1. 1. Suggestion: the label contains a * ?