...I think we should spend some time thinking about integrating
this Web
Forms 2.0 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-forms/current-work/ ...
I'm not familiar with that spec, what does that imply, broadly
speaking?
Having spent some hours discussing microjax with David today, I
decided to actually read the spec because I thought, I might be able
to learn something from the people who work at Apple, Mozilla and
Opera. And I did.
Web Forms 2.0 have a number of implications that ease the development
of web applications by providing a powerful framework for client-side
validation and processing of web forms. This means:
- a validating type system for <input> elements, including date, time,
e-mail-addresses, pattern maching, ranges, steps, sliders, etc
- an <output> element for outputting content (this is useful, hold on)
- a repetition model for form elements including repeater templates,
add and delete row actions, min- and max-repeat specifications
- better handling of file uploads
- a powerful client side form events model including validation and
form processing
- form submission via POST, PUT, GET and DELETE
- form encodings that are encoding-aware and able to express order of
multi-value elements and repeaters
- fetching data from external files and pre-populating forms or
selection lists. Combine this with output fields and repeaters and you
can fill any data into a form that can be expressed in a JCR node.
- more sophisticated ways of dealing with form responses, possible
actions are: doing nothing, loading another page or re-filling the
form with the response data.
So there is a standards-compliant way of exchanging complex form data
between client and server and there is also a cross-browser
implementation available: http://code.google.com/p/webforms2/
I'm not sure how and if we could use this for microjax, but to me this
looks like a solid basis to build webapps upon.
Lars
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