>From what I've learned, In the future, xforms will be supported natively in the browser. However, we don't have that support now, so we can get a middleware that will transform the xform into something viewable. Mozquito transforms it into a flash-like file. CHENG transforms an xform into a series of divs and uses id's and classes to make the elements work.
I have made the recommendation to my company to hold off on xforms for at least a year. We don't need bleeding edge technology and I'm hoping the browsers will support it in about a year. Unfortunately, I think the ball is resting in Microsoft's hands. When IE supports xforms, we will see the xform transformation begin. However, I'm no xform xpert and could be passing on a well meaning but incorrect opinion. Ted -----Original Message----- From: Barry Beattie [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 5:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [WSG] xforms hang on Sean, I'm confused. is it either: the XFORM transformation is on the server and that pushes out HTML/JS/CSS to the browser? or it just sends the XML and XSL for the browser to handle (if so, what browsers will support this - just Mozilla)? just trying to get a handle on how useful XForms will be, esp from a webstandards, supported platforms point of view. thanx barry.b -----Original Message----- From: Sean Corfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, 2 July 2004 10:02 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [WSG] xforms On Thu, 1 Jul 2004 08:57:08 +1000, Barry Beattie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It seems that the next version of ColdFusion will be using XForms as a > version of <CFFORM /> Correct. According to what has been demo'd you will be able to auto-generate XForms from a simple form specification using <cfform> and the 'skinning' is done server side (by specifying an XSL file in <cfform>). If you're targetting an XForm-capable browser, I guess you could supply an empty XSL transform... ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ***************************************************** ***************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/ See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help *****************************************************
