73943 - form.encoding property not working properly...

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect)

Description

[fred.lorrain]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 4.0)
BuildID:    2001032319

This property is a read-only property.
There is absolutely no reason to do that.

In IE I can set this property with a javascript.
With mozilla it's imposible because this property is read-only.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a form called TheForm.
2. Try to set the value of the property encoding of the form object.

Example :
document.TheForm.encoding = "multipart/form-data";
Will return an error

Actual Results:  The script stops because of the error.

Expected Results:  Set the property encoding as read/write.

This bug exists of course also in Netscape 6 and 6.01

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

browser, not engine.  Over to DOM HTML.

DOM2 says that the property is called enctype, not encoding, by the way...

This is certainly not a blocker

Comment 2

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

form.enctype is the standard way of doing this, form.encoding is an IE:ism only
that is not supported by mozilla. I'll fix this with my XPCDOM changes...

Could someone attach a trivial testcase?

Comment 3

[Richard Brodie]

Attachment: Encoding/enctype testcase

Comment 4

[Richard Brodie]

Mozilla appears to support encoding as a readonly alias for enctype (apparently 
this was originally how IE treated it).

The attached testcase shows that Mozilla currently reflects changes to enctype 
in encoding but not vice versa.

Comment 5

[fred.lorrain]

If you define enctype under IE, the encoding property will not be updated.
If you define encoding under IE, the enctype property will not be updated.
IE use only the encoding property. There is no error if I set the value of 
enctype under IE but IE will not use it.

So to be Mozilla and IE compatible I have to set encoding if the browser is IE
and enctype in any other case.

Comment 6

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

You will soon be able to set .encoding and it'll work in both browsers. IE is
the one that's broken here tho, I'm making .encoding work in mozilla to be
compatible with IE's broken behavior only.

Comment 7

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

*** Bug 60770 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 8

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

Fixed by the xpcdom landing.

Comment 9

[Prashant Desale]

Updating QA contact to Shivakiran Tummala.

Comment 10

[Sivakiran Tummala]

verified on linux and windows...
Build ID:
windows - 2001-06-07-06-0.9.1 
Linux - 2001-06-07-13-0.9.1