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Mozilla Starts Work On XForms
AnamanFan writes "The Mozilla Foundation, with Novell and IBM, announced the formation to implement the W3C's XForms 1.0 Recommendation on the Mozilla platform. XForms is the forms module in XHTML 2, developed by the W3C. The project enables developers to deliver the type of next-generation, rich, portable web-based applications desired by corporate IT. Is this one step away from the corporate world's dependence on ActiveX? We can only hope."
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Please?! I for one don't mind if they keep their source closed. Just use the damn code, and we can all be standards compliant for once.
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
...is better than ActiveX
Ah we can all dream. Personally mine tend to involve fast cars, fast computers and fast red-heads with nice legs.
Bad analogies are like waxing a monkey with a rainbow.
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Why would any IT shop not want to use IE 6?
Its been out long enough that its had various service packs and bugfixes so (unlike XPSP2 which is only just out), its probobly safe enough to use.
specialist always die out in nature...
Igor Presnyakov stole my hat
I support xforms.
As a gen-x'r, I prefer to refer to everything as xanything. It really makes my life easier too, as a slacker (I slack therefore I am) you know that I need this. Instead of doing it the old way and calling it FancyNameForSomethingSimple, we just use xsfw. "Honey, where's the xbox?" "I dunno, I think it's in the xcarton in the xcar."
The current forms implementation just sucks.....I'll take xanything new they're willing to try out. Nothing's ever going to replace [java/ecma]script, but if xfroms can cut down on the routine scripting like validation, or maybe just offer some fancy new features (the 'submit as XML' sounds pretty cool!), I'm still xdown.
ASCII silly question, get a silly ANSI.
[i]whoever builds new tech first gets the jump on the market, and as such gets to keep that market.[/i]
let's tell that to Netscape, Real Networks, Mirabilis(ICQ), and others...
Took a lot of time to convince them to change as they felt the checkboxes looked better than the radio buttons.
Good lord, don't get me started on designers and forms.
"But putting round buttons on the page instead of square ones takes away from the feng shui of the layout man."
Yes, but you are missing the "on any device" part. At least all atempts so far to get my banking issues solved with my toaster have failed.
TOASTER: You know the last time you had toast? Eighteen days ago. 11:36, Tuesday the third. Two rounds.
SPIFF: Ssshhh!
TOASTER: I mean, what's the point of buying a toaster with artificial intelligence if you don't like toast?
SPIFF: I do like toast.
TOASTER: I mean, this is my job! This is cruel! Just cruel!
SPIFF: Look, I'm busy!
TOASTER: Oh, you're not busy eating toast, are you?
SPIFF: No, I'm trying to reconcile my checkbook.
TOASTER: I mean, the whole purpose of my existence is to serve you with hot, buttered, scrummy toast. If you don't want any, then my existence is meaningless.
SPIFF: Good. Now show my my current checking account balance.
TOASTER: I toast, therefore I am.
SPIFF: CHECKING ! ACCOUNT ! BALANCE !