Hi,
Ian Hickson who works for the Opera browser company
(in Norway) has spent the last few months on an
alternative XForms proposal called Web Forms 2.0 that
extends HTML4 and rejects the XML above-all-else craze
(eg. namespaces, XPath bindings, scripting is evil,
and so on).
Ian writes:
For the past few months I've been working on a
proposal to extend HTML4 Forms in a backwards
compatible manner, to address the needs that were not
covered by XForms 1.0.
Note: This specification is not just blue-sky work,
there is a good chance that large parts of it will be
implemented in several user agents in the medium-term
future.
Ian also lets us know that Opera has no intension to
add the bloated, hypercomplex XForms machinery to its
browser offering anytime soon.
Ian writes:
Yet other vendors, for example Opera, have stated
both technical and social reasons why they do not
intend to implement XForms, and have in the past
suggested that if the issues they had raised were
addressed, that they may reconsider. Those technical
issues (for example dependence on technologies such as
XPath) were not even remotely addressed, which is why
Opera has been persuing its own solutions, in the
shape of this Web Forms proposal.
Full story @
http://www.hixie.ch/specs/html/forms/web-forms
- Gerald
PS: For a discussion about Web Forms 2.0 vs. W3C
XForms 1.0 check out the [EMAIL PROTECTED] December
archive online @ http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-forms/2003Dec/thread.html
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