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XFORMS Approved by W3C

Posted by Hemos on from the build-it-for-all dept.

cshoes writes "As of November 12th, the W3C has approved xforms. Xforms are a major step up from standard html forms, as they can be created in the developers medium of choice (xhtml, xml, svg...). This flexibility allows the forms not only to be displayed on web sites, but also handhelds, phones, and screenreaders. The W3C's page on xforms is here. Overall, very good news for developers everywhere."

2 of 14 comments (clear)

  1. Browser support? by alexpage · · Score: 5, Interesting

    XForms are a Very Good Thing, but only if browsers support them... a search at mozilla.org reveals only a Status Update from January 2001 suggesting a review of the (then) state of the XForms spec, and BugZilla only mentions one feature request for XForms which is only three days old...

    Still, I'm really looking forward to this one - death to the tired key=value GET and POST lists!

  2. About time! by ozten · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I think this is a very important addition to Internet Programming. IMHO forms and client side programming are currently HTML's weakest point and standardizing this areas growth is very wise.

    I think we are heading towards a richer standards friendly front end for our web browsers.

    One year from now I will probably be building web apps in JavaServer Faces + SVG, that are just as responsive and fast as using all the evil proprietary IE goodies.