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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."
xforms is fully buzzword compliant and serves as an excellent tool for dumb managers to wank with.
When will I end this grieving ? When will my future begin ?
After all that, I think Bender summed it up best:
"Interesting! No, wait, the other thing. Tedious."
Suspend and Resume. Oh, that'll be usefull for last minute regret when making large online purchaces.
Click here to submit form to purchase $2000 computer... Wait! I changed my mind. Suspend. Suspend. Hmmm... I can always use another computer, Resume!
What next? Motif for the WWW?
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Maybe they should have used a different name
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
Just like Firebird. What really gets me is not the fact that these names have already been taken but that at least two seperate people on earth think these are good names for their projects. Firebird is a bad name and it's only made worse by the Thunderbird project, confusing as hell. One should be called Fire and one Thunder, now that's pretty cool. Except for the fact that Fire is an IM on the Mac.
XForms is a bad name. Sure, it kinda sounds like XHTML. Here's a reality check: XHTML is a bad name. X2 was a bad name for a movie, XP is a bad version number and so is MX. X is a stupid letter. Don't go tacking it onto everything you name just to make it sound cool. A name doesn't make something cool, but it sure can make it sound stupid.
Don't even try to explain that extensible starts with an X instead of an E unless you're speaking in ebonics, and in that case, mad props.
Huh?
As someone who once wrote a cross-device content delivery platform for PDAs, WML/HDML phones, and browsers, I repeat:
Huh?
Craptastic.
Hey, I'm just your average shit and piss factory.
Does anyone know of a program that lets another computer "draw" in a window on my computer? Maybe we could start a "network" of these programs, like the www, only with these awesomely new programs; the servers could use whatever programming language they want to construct their input/output system...hmm...I see the letter "x" a lot in that summmarry...maybe we could call this newfangled program "X"?
Here at /. we have human editors for spelling independencence... not to mention English grammar transcendencence... or (my favorite) just plain incoherencence...
Xcellent post.
...the moment someone steals the name of yours (XForms) to use it for another thing, probably thinking "Hah! Ill bet noone will remember the original."