Hello, Elliote Rusty Harold (of XML in a Nutshell, Effective XML, XML Bible, XOM and more fame) has covered live last week's WWW2004 conference in New York in his Cafe con Leche blog.
This week Elliote wrapped up his thoughts and looked back and writes: Yesterday I wrote about what I didn't like at WWW2004 (the Semantic Web). Today I'm going to write about what I did like, because there was one technology presented that really impressed me, and that I think is going to be a key part of development in the very near future, with an exponential growth rate for the next couple of years. That technology is XForms. Like many successful technologies before it (XML, HTML, Java, Linux), XForms doesn't really let you do anything you can't do today. It is not radically new. It does not require reorganizing the way one runs a business or develops software. Unlike the semantic web, it does not require learning completely new and unfamiliar areas of technology such as ontologies and inference systems. What XForms does do is give developers the tools to write a lot of the applications they're already writing today much more quickly, cleanly, and robustly. I'm still learning about XForms, but what I see impresses me a lot. More @ http://www.cafeconleche.org/oldnews/news2004May25.html Do you share Elliote's outlook that W3C's XForms is the next big thing after XML, HTML, Java and Linux? As always please post your comments and thoughts to xul-talk (just change the mail address from xul-announce to xul-talk). Thanks. - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Open XUL Alliance - A Rich Internet For Everyone | http://xul.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
