On Tuesday 2004-04-27 21:07 -0700, Bryan W. Taylor wrote:
> A few months ago an argument broke out in the bugzilla comments for
> bug 97806 ("Implement W3C XForms in browser and composer"). I believe
> (and 534 votes agree) that XForms would make Mozilla better.Considering that http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/ links directly to the bug with the request "vote for it now!", I wouldn't take that number too seriously. Never mind the various slashdot comments (and perhaps even articles) that linked to it with the same request. In fact, it seems somewhat surprising that such strong encouragement to vote for the bug over such a long period of time only led to 534 votes. > your targetting XML format. You also have to do validations that could > be done on the client and that means crummy performance. XForms is Validation needs to be done on the server anyway. Promoting client-side-only validation will just lead people to write lots of security holes into their server software. -David -- L. David Baron <URL: http://dbaron.org/ >
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