Might I remind you that you are probably descended from british colonists, who undoubtedly knew that the correct spelling of colour is colour. It is undoubtedly the americans who have sodomised the english language, not vice versa. Whilst your whit and charm are obviously endearing, your spelling is not!
If you can use XForms server side from J2EE or.NET, and output HTML 4, that's marvellous, I would certainly use them that way.
However, there does seem to be a lot of noise about client side XForms, which makes me wonder as to the sanity of the beast. I don't think it's reasonable to expect browsers vendors to implement every new fad originating from the W3C crowd. It's taken us so long to get to the stage where, by and large, most browsers support HTML 4, some part of ECMAScript and CSS 1.
As a web developer, I have no intention of learning this technology until I am sure it will be supported by all major browsers.
Whilst I am sure that XForms are fantastic and will lead to the eventual extinction of html forms, it is not currently pheasible to use them in web projects. I will continue to use html and javascript today, as web browsers support html forms and javascript today.
I have read this topic with interest, but I must admit that you were boring me towards the end.
It seems quite apparent to me that you (episteme) are nothing more than a troll.
> Owning you is becoming boring.
As an outsider, it seems to me that the person that you think you are "owning" presents a far more concise argument, thus you are not "owning" anybody, meerly being a troll.
XML is to Docbook as SGML is to HTML. You wouldn't write web pages in SGML, so why write documentation in XML?
If you were to write your documentation in XML, then you would need to define a meaningful DTD/schema and all the tools that go with it to make it useful.
But why bother when someone's already done the hard work for you? eg. Docbook.
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Might I remind you that you are probably descended from british colonists, who undoubtedly knew that the correct spelling of colour is colour. It is undoubtedly the americans who have sodomised the english language, not vice versa. Whilst your whit and charm are obviously endearing, your spelling is not!
Regards,
Your British Friend,
Rob Shields
Don't you know it's the latest W3C fad to prefix everything with X?
.. etc
eg. XML, XPath, XSLT, XDR, XHTML, XLink, XPointer, XQuery, XSD
Perhaps when they run out of acronyms they will start using XXX.
If you can use XForms server side from J2EE or .NET, and output HTML 4, that's marvellous, I would certainly use them that way.
However, there does seem to be a lot of noise about client side XForms, which makes me wonder as to the sanity of the beast. I don't think it's reasonable to expect browsers vendors to implement every new fad originating from the W3C crowd. It's taken us so long to get to the stage where, by and large, most browsers support HTML 4, some part of ECMAScript and CSS 1.
you are nothing more than an idiot.
Thanks!
I'd more than welcome a synopsis of his "concise argument". I could do with a laugh.
Sorry to disappoint, but I fear I have more important things to do today.
I didn't realize you were twelve, sorry kid. Why don't you boot up your ub3r l337 windows machine and h4x0r me?
Sorry again, but I don't do h4x0ring, bye!
As a web developer, I have no intention of learning this technology until I am sure it will be supported by all major browsers.
Whilst I am sure that XForms are fantastic and will lead to the eventual extinction of html forms, it is not currently pheasible to use them in web projects. I will continue to use html and javascript today, as web browsers support html forms and javascript today.
I have read this topic with interest, but I must admit that you were boring me towards the end.
It seems quite apparent to me that you (episteme) are nothing more than a troll.
> Owning you is becoming boring.
As an outsider, it seems to me that the person that you think you are "owning" presents a far more concise argument, thus you are not "owning" anybody, meerly being a troll.
Go back to trollville, arse face!
XML is to Docbook as SGML is to HTML. You wouldn't write web pages in SGML, so why write documentation in XML?
If you were to write your documentation in XML, then you would need to define a meaningful DTD/schema and all the tools that go with it to make it useful.
But why bother when someone's already done the hard work for you? eg. Docbook.