On Sun, 12 Oct 2014 11:07:41 +0200 Alain Couthures <[email protected]> wrote:
> All, > > Having a look at AB/2014-2015 Priorities/w3c work success > (https://www.w3.org/wiki/AB/2014-2015_Priorities/w3c_work_success), I > can read that XForms is one of the "failures to learn from". > > Surely, there is a lot to be said about XForms as a failure. In this > list of "failures", I would personally add XSLT and XQuery for very > similar reasons, and surely SVG some years ago, if they all had to be > considered as effective Web, or client-side, technologies. > > What do you think? Shouldn't we write what has to be written? > > Thanks! > > -Alain Hello Alain I am not an expert in the field, but I would not call XForms a failure. Though I suppose it does depend on what the measure is. If I were looking for something that would have made it come together better, it would have been a tool, a main tool, a browser or something, that brought all the ideas together in a demonstrable and useful product. Having said that, it is a shame it has all [arguably] struggled along for reasons which I suspect are down to other commercial vested interests by big players and their take-up or lack of, any proposed standards adoption. I still believe the XML based 'tools' (XForms, and associated concepts e.g. XRX) are extremely important and its too easy to cast them off. This comment from a reply to your post "...the W3C...should just make its own browser with ALL its XML standards implemented." (Stephen Cameron) is not a shout without serious merit in my opinion too. Not wishing to distract from supporting the previous idea, was not XSmiles an attempt to have a go at doing the XML standards compliant browser. Whatever, I still try to use XForms and it will only fail for me if the clever and supportive open-source community minds keeping tools going in some form or another, actually give up. To them, including you for XSLTForms, I am grateful! I wish there was some push by W3C to resurrect (if some feel it has had its day) and bring it all together in a serious meaningful way. There would always be a market I'm sure.....creative non-mainstream people like to push boundaries :-). Regards Chris H. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Meet PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance Requirements with EventLog Analyzer Achieve PCI DSS 3.0 Compliant Status with Out-of-the-box PCI DSS Reports Are you Audit-Ready for PCI DSS 3.0 Compliance? Download White paper Comply to PCI DSS 3.0 Requirement 10 and 11.5 with EventLog Analyzer http://p.sf.net/sfu/Zoho _______________________________________________ Xsltforms-support mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xsltforms-support
