XForms Becomes Proposed Recommendation

leighklotz writes "The W3C has announced that XForms is now a Proposed Recommendation, after certification of one full implementation (open source Java XSmiles from Finland) and two more implementations of each feature (the Internet Explorer plug-in FormsPlayer and the Java standalone Novell xPlorer). XForms is the next generation of forms for the Web, and uses an XML-based three-layer model: data model, data, and user interface. XForms uses CSS for device independencence and is designed for integration into XHTML 2, SVG, and other XML-based markup languages. A host of other implementations are available or in progress, but my pick for most interesting is DENG, which is an XForms to Flash compiler written in Flash. DENG supports XForms, SVG, RSS, XHTML, and CSS. XForms is in consideration for other standards as diverse as Universal Remote Controls and the UK Government Interoperability Framework, and was developed with the participation of IBM, Oracle, Xerox, Adobe, Novell, SAP, Cardiff, PureEdge, and a host of other companies, universities, and invididuals."

Comments

Re:Not again...

[KaiserSoze]

Sorry, I don't normally get drawn into things like this, but I have to comment.

Wow, yes, you are indeed the Master when it comes to making Perl jump and do tricks. And I loved web programming with Perl too, until I started using PHP. It simplified a lot of the "busy work" that goes into Perl CGI creation, and was generally easier to use to prototype a page and such.

The point here is that something came along that made web programming a little easier, which is what I gather XForms is. Who cares about Flash-compilers. All I care about is efficiently creating and maintaining forms code. Yes, it is relatively simple right now. That doesn't mean I won't check out a new way just to see what it's like.

Do you honestly think I'll look up to you if you grumble about how "assembly language is the only true form, new niche languages are for pussys"? Sorry, but statements such as "I can do [blah] without any of that fancy whizbang technology!" do nothing to endear me to your argument.

So, go ahead and code with pure HTML and your CGI forms, I'm sure it will look and function fairly well. But don't take it out on others if you feel time creeping up on you.

Dammit, I want back to 1995 and Slackware 3.0...

By all means, go ahead. I won't miss you.