[jQuery] Utility of "semantic" parameter in formSerialize
Based on the jQuery in Action book the "semantic' parameter to
formSerialize arranges elements in the order the browser would have
submitted them. The order of elements does not appear to be stipulated
in the specification of HTTP form submissions. Even though it's not
specified you can probably bet the farm it has precisely nothing to do
with "semantic" ordering. I would just call a spade a spade such as
submissionOrder or some such thing.
Anyway, what is the utility of this parameter? What server would
assume ordering that doesn't exist in the spec? Final note is that the
relatively exhaustive (if not exhausting) jQuery in Action has a big
WARNING box regarding performance with that option. Is there really
some bizarre, inexplicably slow code involved in "sematic ordering"?
Sounds like washing your car to save gas.