Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-29 Thread Klotz, Leigh
: Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2 Elliotte Harold wrote: Matthew Raymond wrote: One would almost get the impression that supporters of XForms-Tiny would rather write their own spec than engage in dialogue with the community that created Web Forms 2.0... Hello, Pot

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-29 Thread Ian Hickson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Klotz, Leigh wrote: At http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2003Oct/0028 you can see a report I made on 2003 October in which I first encountered this work. I was looking for XForms Basic, the name of a Working Draft from the W3C Forms Working group, and

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-29 Thread Klotz, Leigh
Raymond; WHAT WG List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2 On Mon, 29 Jan 2007, Klotz, Leigh wrote: At http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Member/w3c-archive/2003Oct/0028 you can see a report I made on 2003 October in which I first encountered this work. I

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-28 Thread Elliotte Harold
Geoffrey Sneddon wrote: No, HTML and XHTML are competing – XForms MUST be in XHTML, so thereby preventing anyone using HTML cannot use it. Within text/html data (as to include XHTML 1.0 App. C) at least there is no competition whatsoever. But anyone using HTML can use XHTML instead. If

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-27 Thread Geoffrey Sneddon
On 27 Jan 2007, at 02:17, Elliotte Harold wrote: Matthew Raymond wrote: This specification is in no way aimed at replacing XForms 1.0 [XForms], nor is it a subset of XForms 1.0. I agree that it's not a subset of XForms 1.0, but the first claim is pure FUD. Web Forms 2.0 happened

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-26 Thread Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer
Matthew Raymond: Klotz, Leigh wrote: Explain to me why Web Forms 2.0 shouldn't be incorporating more of the great ideas in XForms-Tiny rather than the other way around. Why is your approach to cannibalize an existing W3C working draft to enrich a draft you haven't even finished yet? What, in

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-26 Thread Elliotte Harold
Matthew Raymond wrote: This specification is in no way aimed at replacing XForms 1.0 [XForms], nor is it a subset of XForms 1.0. I agree that it's not a subset of XForms 1.0, but the first claim is pure FUD. Web Forms 2.0 happened precisely because some people didn't like XForms 1.0 and

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-25 Thread Klotz, Leigh
PROTECTED] Cc: WHAT WG List Subject: Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2 On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:02:57 -0500, Elliotte Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One would almost get the impression that supporters of XForms-Tiny would rather write their own spec than engage in dialogue

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-25 Thread James Graham
Klotz, Leigh wrote: If Opera had wanted to engage, it would have done so in the many previous years, and if Opera had concerns about the direction of XForms (or even XHTML (or even XML)) it would have done so at the charter and requirements document stages. Not doing so was a business

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-25 Thread Klotz, Leigh
: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2 Klotz, Leigh wrote: If Opera had wanted to engage, it would have done so in the many previous years, and if Opera had concerns about the direction of XForms (or even XHTML (or even XML)) it would have done so at the charter and requirements document stages

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-25 Thread Ian Hickson
On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, James Graham wrote: Sorry, was I reading the same document as you? I saw a list of technical problems that Apple and Opera identified... On Thu, 25 Jan 2007, Klotz, Leigh wrote: You did see some technical objections that Opera raised, but please check to see any

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-25 Thread Matthew Raymond
Klotz, Leigh wrote: Explain to me why Web Forms 2.0 shouldn't be incorporating more of the great ideas in XForms-Tiny rather than the other way around. Why is your approach to cannibalize an existing W3C working draft to enrich a draft you haven't even finished yet? What, in your opinion,

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-25 Thread Matthew Raymond
Elliotte Harold wrote: Matthew Raymond wrote: One would almost get the impression that supporters of XForms-Tiny would rather write their own spec than engage in dialogue with the community that created Web Forms 2.0... Hello, Pot? This is Kettle. You're black. See this URL:

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-24 Thread James Graham
Anne van Kesteren wrote: On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 07:02:57 -0500, Elliotte Harold [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: One would almost get the impression that supporters of XForms-Tiny would rather write their own spec than engage in dialogue with the community that created Web Forms 2.0... Hello, Pot? This

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-24 Thread Michael(tm) Smith
James Graham [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2007-01-24 15:33 +: Anne van Kesteren wrote: http://www.w3.org/mid/[EMAIL PROTECTED] (W3C Member-only) Anne is it possible to summarise the content of that message? Citing sources we can't follow up is _really_ irritating :) I think the following

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-23 Thread Klotz, Leigh
Or what makes you want to cannibalize an existing W3C Recommendation which predates the formation of WHAT-WG? Explain to me why Web Forms 2.0 shouldn't be incorporating more of the great ideas in XForms-Tiny rather than the other way around. Why is your approach to cannibalize an existing W3C

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-23 Thread Anne van Kesteren
On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:51:55 -0500, Klotz, Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or what makes you want to cannibalize an existing W3C Recommendation which predates the formation of WHAT-WG? I don't think most people in the WHATWG see it as a XForms versus Web Forms 2 match or something. I don't

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-23 Thread Klotz, Leigh
, January 23, 2007 10:58 AM To: Klotz, Leigh; Matthew Raymond; Dave Raggett Cc: WHAT WG List; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; public-appformats@w3.org Subject: Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2 On Tue, 23 Jan 2007 13:51:55 -0500, Klotz, Leigh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Or what makes you want

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-22 Thread Matthew Raymond
Dave Raggett wrote: From your comments, you seem to be very confident of your scripting skills, [...] Not really. It may be the case that others could code the same kind of scripting in a clearer and more compact form. [...] and would have no problem in emulating my examples on top of

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-19 Thread Dave Raggett
Hi Matthew, The idea behind XForms-Tiny is to build on the strengths of both Web Forms 2.0 and XForms, and to incorporate ideas from both. I took a very practical approach to that by seeing how far I could get with a cross-browser library that works on as many as possible of today's browsers

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-18 Thread Dave Raggett
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jon Ferraiolo wrote: I have a very simple question from the land of Ajax (and OpenAjax Alliance). Can either XForms-Tiny or WF2 be implemented in JavaScript such they run on today's browsers, or do they both require new version of browsers (or plugins) to ship before the

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-18 Thread Dave Raggett
On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jon Ferraiolo wrote: Hi Dave, Thanks for the update. Given that XF-T has already proven to run on today's browsers, no matter how the W3C ends up reconciling XF-T vs WF2, it seems to me that a MUST requirement is that the result of this XF-T vs WF2 reconciliation should

Re: [whatwg] Comparison of XForms-Tiny and WF2

2007-01-17 Thread Matthew Raymond
Dave Raggett wrote: Dean Jackson suggested I write up a brief comparison of XForms-Tiny and WebForms 2.0. You can find this on the Forms wiki at: http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/Forms/wiki/XForms-Tiny WF2 and XForms-Tiny both involve incremental extensions to HTML forms as defined in