[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 13061] Let plugins participate in form submission

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http://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13061





------- Comment #4 from vlad.alexander at xstandard.com  2007-03-21 14:16 PDT -------
IE, Firefox and Opera support this feature and it order to provide a cross
browser plug-in integration technique, it would be wonderful if Safari
supported this as well.

Currently, in the absence of this feature, our users have to add a hidden field
to the Web page and a JavaScript function to copy data from the "object"
element to the hidden field. Then call this JavaScript function in the
"onsumit" attribute of the "form" element. The JavaScript approach has 3
problems:

1. It's complex especially when you have multiple plug-ins on the same page.

2. It's not accessible. We are trying to make our plug-in ATAG- (W3C Authoring
Tool Accessibility Guidelines) and ISO-compliant, which means it has to work in
the browser when JavaScript is disabled.

3. Our plug-in is used in content management systems (CMS) and many CMS do not
permit modification of the "onsubmit" attribute in the "form" element.

A dev build of our plug-in that supports the "name" attribute on the "object"
element and a test-case is available here:
http://misc.xstandard.com/apple/javascriptfree.asp

Also, this bug was file in Apple's bug tracking system in January 2005.


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