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It's in Flash. Seriously, the biggest threat to the Internet is not lack of standards support in IE, but the speed and robustness with which Macromedia (and now Adobe) are developing an integrated, immersive web publishing platform. (X)HTML/CSS/JavaScript already can't compete with the power and flexibility of Flash. If it weren't for the horriffic UI and price, Flash development would be the new IE.

For XForms you already have a Flash viewer and a server-side XForms to HTML + JavaScript implementation. There are lots more, but those are the only two I've tested which implement a good deal of the standard and are good-looking..

• DENG Examples: http://claus.packts.net/deng/examples/
• DENG Features: http://claus.packts.net/deng/features.php
• DENG Home: http://claus.packts.net/

• DENG Examples: http://claus.packts.net/deng/examples/
• DENG Features: http://claus.packts.net/deng/features.php
• DENG Home: http://claus.packts.net/

• DENG Examples: http://claus.packts.net/deng/examples/
• DENG Features: http://claus.packts.net/deng/features.php
• DENG Home: http://claus.packts.net/

From the DENG web site :
"DENG is an open source Modular XML Browser, capable of rendering subsets of XForms, SVG, XHTML, XFrames, arbitrary XML(...) Currently, the footprint of the DENG Modular XML Browser is 76 KByte, allowing zero-install deployment of these W3C standards to the vast majority of today's web browsers that have the Macromedia Flash Player 6 installed."

http://claus.packts.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dengmx

This is a really cute application and for those of you who'd like to see Xforms in action, there's a few working examples on their demo page : http://claus.packts.net/deng/examples

Of course, it's open source (GPL).

From the DENG web site :
"DENG is an open source Modular XML Browser, capable of rendering subsets of XForms, SVG, XHTML, XFrames, arbitrary XML(...) Currently, the footprint of the DENG Modular XML Browser is 76 KByte, allowing zero-install deployment of these W3C standards to the vast majority of today's web browsers that have the Macromedia Flash Player 6 installed."

http://claus.packts.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/dengmx

This is a really cute application and for those of you who'd like to see Xforms in action, there's a few working examples on their demo page : http://claus.packts.net/deng/examples

Of course, it's open source (GPL).

Apart from the fact that it is proprietary to the bone, Flash is not necessarily bad. Please stop bitching, that's contra productive and leads to nothing.

The Flash Player VM internally features full ECMA 262 support, a basic XML parser, audio and video codecs, an advanced vector rendering engine, etc, all in a quite stable and secure 500k plugin, and it is the most widespread browser plugin ever (more than 95% of web users are able to play SWF6 content today).

Knowing this, the FP VM could be intelligently used as a core framework for zeroinstall implementations of generic XML-fed rendering engines (browsers, web application frameworks). "DENG" is such an engine, rendering subsets of SVG, XForms, XHTML, XFrames, SMIL, and any arbitrary XML markup, styled by CSS 2/3:

Apart from the fact that it is proprietary to the bone, Flash is not necessarily bad. Please stop bitching, that's contra productive and leads to nothing.

The Flash Player VM internally features full ECMA 262 support, a basic XML parser, audio and video codecs, an advanced vector rendering engine, etc, all in a quite stable and secure 500k plugin, and it is the most widespread browser plugin ever (more than 95% of web users are able to play SWF6 content today).

Knowing this, the FP VM could be intelligently used as a core framework for zeroinstall implementations of generic XML-fed rendering engines (browsers, web application frameworks). "DENG" is such an engine, rendering subsets of SVG, XForms, XHTML, XFrames, SMIL, and any arbitrary XML markup, styled by CSS 2/3:

Apart from the fact that it is proprietary to the bone, Flash is not necessarily bad. Please stop bitching, that's contra productive and leads to nothing.

The Flash Player VM internally features full ECMA 262 support, a basic XML parser, audio and video codecs, an advanced vector rendering engine, etc, all in a quite stable and secure 500k plugin, and it is the most widespread browser plugin ever (more than 95% of web users are able to play SWF6 content today).

Knowing this, the FP VM could be intelligently used as a core framework for zeroinstall implementations of generic XML-fed rendering engines (browsers, web application frameworks). "DENG" is such an engine, rendering subsets of SVG, XForms, XHTML, XFrames, SMIL, and any arbitrary XML markup, styled by CSS 2/3:

fyi, there is software available, making the Flash Player (6) render latest W3C XML Applications like XForms or SVG: check out DENG

If an XForms browser was relatively small and easy to install, then IT departments may be willing to install one. Or, make it a pluggin, similar to Flash (which also has a forms technology of its own, I would note.)
There is actually an XForms implementation done in Flash, under development at DENG.