- From: Matthew Raymond <mattraymond@earthlink.net>
- Date: Mon, 04 Sep 2006 06:08:25 -0400
- To: Francisco Monteiro <monterro2004@tiscali.co.uk>
- CC: public-appformats@w3.org
Francisco Monteiro wrote: > I think the whole debate should switch to W3C compound document and how best > to achieve this. I fail to see how this will help, especially since there are HTML fallback and conceptual conflict issues that have nothing to do with compound documents. We should keep this in public-appformats at least until Ian Hickson gets back from vacation. > As I previously mentioned there is room for more then 1 technology here but > there should be no duplicate in authoring Web applications options. I would agree. That's why I think the next version of XForms should be a superset of WF2 and previous XForms recommendations if at all possible. Keep in mind, however, that HTML-only user agents will likely implement WF2 (or something like it) regardless whether the W3C extends HTML or not, and if IE implements WF2, other user agents will be forced to implement it because of IE's market share. In that scenario, W3C will have gained nothing by excluding HTML from modern web forms standards, and in fact may undermine its own credibility.
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