>Is XForms really going to be the next stage in the evolution of forms on the >browser or is it just some hyped up hot air thats really a wild goose chase?
IMHO it's hard to say, XForms has been perculating for along time. I think if you speak to some vendors (Like Novell) they think so. But in reality, there are some assumptions being made by these vendors that may make it difficult for XForms to really proliferate. Such as native support for XForms. As you mentioned there are few clients that natively support XForms, and those that do use a plugin. Now you might argue that using a plugin is good enough, until you have to start managing plugins, plugin verions, etc.. then you have different platforms for the plugin (applets anyone?). It also assumes that you (and your app) live in mostly an XML world. Which is not the case for many, and those that do may not be doing so natively (I.e. exposing relational data via XML as opposed to an XML database). And if XForms becomes natively supported, let's hope all vendors choose to support the same,full spec the same way. (HTML, CSS, CSSP ???). Frankly I think you can accomplish similar things with existing technologies and practices. HTH, Mike j -----Original Message----- From: Andrew Hill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 2:03 AM To: Struts Subject: [OT] XForms Currently the app Im working on is using an xhtml front end (with struts of course) but Ive been asked to look at XForms with an eye to migrating to it in the future (and probably throwing in a migration to JSF while Im there). Currently the XForms spec is only a candidate release with afaik very little browser support, though I gather there are a number of plugins that implement an XForms processor. I'm in the process of reading through whats on the w3c site about it but am still pretty clueless as to what it really implies in terms of what we would do different to now. While I understand what I am reading I dont truly grok it yet. Anyone else been looking into this and can share some pointers on what I need to think about? Is XForms really going to be the next stage in the evolution of forms on the browser or is it just some hyped up hot air thats really a wild goose chase? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
