History of encodeURIComponent() Revision history for: English (US) Aug 17, 2016, 3:04:59 AM eduardoboucas Adjust wording of Return value Previous Jul 24, 2016, 3:57:03 PM eduardoboucas Adjust wording of Return value (consistent with other escape methods) Previous Jul 24, 2016, 3:44:21 PM eduardoboucas Add "Return value" section as per Bug 1287421 Previous May 30, 2016, 1:18:28 PM someone https://books.google.fr/books?id=GEQlVcVf_zkC&pg=PA1067&dq=encodeURIComponent Previous Jan 4, 2016, 6:41:57 AM fscholz add ES draft Previous Nov 21, 2015, 9:13:13 PM x2357 change "method" to "function" (for consistency) Previous Jul 6, 2015, 8:02:13 AM fscholz Previous Jul 6, 2015, 8:01:28 AM fscholz fix compat parsing error; cleanup Previous Jan 25, 2015, 3:46:10 AM fscholz clear editorial review Previous Jan 21, 2015, 1:05:59 AM mgiuffrida Doesn't seem like application/x-www-form-urlencoded is intended only for POST: https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#idx-form-12, https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/interact/forms.html#didx-applicationx-www-form-urlencoded