Il giorno 19/ago/05, alle 14:25, Sylvain Wallez ha scritto:
Yeah, but their new "ajaxified" XForms engine looks cool.
What do you find particularily cool? Except the eye-candy when focus
enters a list, I wasn't impressed. I was also surprised to see that
almost every user action triggers a roundtrip to the server (the
"Loading" spinning wheel), which puts a useless load on the server,
especially on large forms where the user may tab quickly to navigate
inputs.
What I find interesting is being able to proocess XForms on the client
without plugins, applets or other proprietary extensions. Like it or
not, XForms is becoming more popular and having XForms support in
Cocoon means that fewer people will look somewhere else when they learn
that Cocoon has a proprietary forms framework, even if it currently is
the best around.
Being enthusiast about Ajax, I think the best way to support XForms in
a browser is to use that (or the next version of Firefox, when it will
have native support for XForms/SVG/etc.). Since the implementation in
OPS is Open Source (AFAIK), it might be worthwhile to take a look at
it.
Of course, this means having another 12 hours extra per day, in
addition to the 36 we all already need. ;-)
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