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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."

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  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!

    1. Re:Browser support? by RussGarrett · · Score: 5, Funny

      What? Only one bug report for the implementation of XForms? Good God no duplicates!

      If you'd looked a bit harder you'd have seen that that bug is over a year old. Indeed the last comment on it is from the coder who is going to impliment it, in a month or so.

  2. Re:SO when do we get client support on most client by leighklotz · · Score: 4, Informative
    > When, for instance, will Mozilla or IE support this?

    See the list of implementations. Here are some highlights, in answer to your question:

    • XForms in Mozilla has been assigned to an implementor; you can track its status in bugzilla, as has been reported here a few times.
    • As for IE, when W3C issued the recommendation to begin implementing, there was already a plug-in for IE and a server-side XForms to Flash transcoder, which means that XForms works on anything that supports Flash.

    That should tide us over until support for mobile phones, pdas, appliances, net-connected office equipment, workflow systems, and other browsers pick up support.

    If you are implementing XForms yourself, please do send implementation feedback.