Hello, Steven Pemberton who chairs the W3C HTML and XForms Working Groups has posted the slides for last week's WWW2004 talk about XForms in New York online.
In the "XForms 1.0: en route to success slide" Steven writes: On the day of release there were more implementations than any other W3C specification on the day of release, ever Around 30 implementations announced so far, including plugins, native implementations, proxies, 'zero install' implementations, a voice-browser, an editor, a validator... Major companies and industries are already using XForms (e.g. Bristol-Myers-Squibb, Frauenhofer, Daiwa - a Japanese Bank, the British Life Insurance industry... and more I can't tell you about yet: watch this space!) So much about the hype. As far as I know not a single browser vendor/project (e.g. Microsoft, Apple, Opera, Mozilla, Konqueror, etc.) has endorsed W3C XForms. Ironically, the W3C is supposed to be a vendor consortium. Anyway, for a reality check I invite you to check out the Richmond Post poll asking "What is your XForms Player of choice?" online @ http://xul.sourceforge.net/post/2004/05/poll_what_is_your_xforms_player_of_choice.html So far only about a hundred people have bothered to vote although the poll is now up for more than a week and I've promoted it *twice* on half a dozen mailinglists including xml-dev, www-forms, and more. Is XForms the next big thing? To quote Steven: It looks like it is going to be the year of XForms. XForms has hit a nerve, and is supplying a need: industry reponse has been incredible. More @ http://www.w3.org/2004/Talks/05-19-steven-XForms-WWW2004 - Gerald ------------------- Gerald Bauer Open XUL Alliance - A Rich Internet For Everyone | http://xul.sourceforge.net ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by: Oracle 10g Get certified on the hottest thing ever to hit the market... Oracle 10g. Take an Oracle 10g class now, and we'll give you the exam FREE. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=3149&alloc_id=8166&op=click _______________________________________________ xul-announce mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/xul-announce
