Ted Drake wrote:
you can also use "chiba" the server side solution which should work on all browsers. I just implemented chiba on my linux box, you will need Java SDK + Tomcat Web server. It works fine on mozilla browsers, but something strange(don't be surprised) on IE.. donno if its because I installled "Forms player". Chiba can be obtained from sourceforge and it comes with several examples.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...
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