As I was taking notes at JabberCon, one theme that kept popping into my mind was the need for strong forms support in Jabber. Just as the World Wide Web consisted mostly of reading hyperlinked documents (albeit eventually with some flashy graphics and multimedia stuff) until web developers figured out how to offer interactive forms and therefore "weblications" like searching the web and ordering books online, so I think Jabber will consist mostly of IM (and a few related applications) until we have Jabber forms that will enable developers to create more robust "Jablications" like _______ (you fill in the blank :).
I don't have any answers or specific proposals to offer, but I'd certainly like to get the discussion going. Ryan Eatmon put together a proposed spec for Jabber forms a number of months ago, and even converted it into JEP format, but there's been minimal discussion of it and I think that's what we need to move forward. The JEP can be found here: http://foundation.jabber.org/jeps/jep-0004.html More specifically, I'm wondering if there is value in looking at the W3C spec for XForms. Here are some links of interest for that angle: http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/09/05/xforms.html http://www.xml.com/lpt/a/2001/09/26/xforms.html http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/WD-xforms-20010828/ There are 12 people on the forms-jig mailing list and 1050 people on the JDEV list. I invite those of you who are interested in building more advanced data interchange over Jabber (as opposed to simple IM) to join the forms-jig list so we can kick-start this discussion: http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/forms-jig/ Peter -- Peter Saint-Andre email/jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] web: http://www.saint-andre.com/ _______________________________________________ jdev mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.jabber.org/listinfo/jdev
