W3C Releases XForms

Posted by timothy on Wednesday November 13, 2002 @06:31AM 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."

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Re:Nonono.. don't client validate! by Spy+Hunter · 2002-11-13 10:02 · Score: 4, Insightful

You still validate the data on the server. Duh. The idea with client-side validation is that the browser can tell the user what's wrong with the form while they're typing in the data instead of after they hit the submit button and get a form page back with big red text telling them they did it wrong.

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