Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

W3C Releases XForms

Posted by timothy on from the own-your-own-mint dept.

An anonymous reader submits: "On the heels of several other releases, the W3C has released XForms as a Candidate Recommendation. Coverage here and here. XForms is the way-better version of HTML forms -- it's XML-based and includes built-in client-side validation and calculations, without scripting. It is expected to replace old-fashioned HTML forms in XHTML 2.0. It's also being viewed by many as the standards-based alternative to Microsoft's XDocs. Now's your chance to try it out and submit your comments, before the official Recommendation comes out in a few months."

3 of 31 comments (clear)

  1. uhmmmm by ivanandre · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Very interesting, and useful too for us web developers... but its the standard besides Microsoft standard...

  2. XForms? by gaj · · Score: 3, Interesting
    This should make the folks over at XForms happy! Isn't it neat the way we reuse names?

    I thought that XForms was pretty much moribund, mostly caused (IMHO) by the "only free for non-comercial use" license. It appears that I was wrong, though. In fact, it looks like the soon to be released 1.0 will be licensed under LGPL. Too bad about the name clash, though.

  3. But please... by Anonymous+Cowdog · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Developers, please refrain from making validation so anal that it becomes unusable. People like Jennifer 8 Lee (NYT reporter) should be able to enter their name into a web form name field, for example. And sometimes people want to enter letters into phone number fields, for valid reasons (like spelling a phone number to help the recipient remember it, or to make a point). Please don't make things too restrictive.