What about issuing a real MIME-message? multipart/text or something
like that (not a MIME guru, so somthing else might be more
appropriate). Each variable could have its own 'part'. Would this be
too much of a pain on the server side? (Imagine it would)
>To be honest, the idea of encoding it in some kind of SGML format
>does not excite me in the least -- what would be the added value?
>
>Also, I'd like to suggest that multiline text fields have a different
>type (e.g. "textarea") than single-line fields ("text"), as they
>really are different types of things, and imply different issues
>(semantics) for client-side handling.
Definitely agree with this! I'm going to have a few hours of coding
ahead of me to add all the forms options you guys put into Mosaic2p5
into my emacs browser.
Popup lists are great, but as I said in an earlier message, I think
we need to stay away from things like sliders and knobs.
Looking forward to playing with pre5 when I get to my xterm!
-bill p