Ugo Cei wrote:
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.
Ah ok, I thought it was about the feature showcased in the demos.
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.
There's also Chiba which has Cocoon integration. I don't know its status
though. Something that may be worth investigating also is a
XForms->CForms translator. Could this be a bunch of XSLs?
Of course, this means having another 12 hours extra per day, in
addition to the 36 we all already need. ;-)
I personally would like 42 hours a day (H2G2 just went out in theaters
here) :-)
Sylvain
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