- From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 17:23:42 -0700
- To: "Forms WG (new)" <public-forms@w3.org>
All, It just occurred to me that the XForms 1.1 xforms:submission/@target attribute [1] is badly chosen. The reason is that a "target", in HTML speak, specifies an optional target window or frame. This, in particular, applies to <a> and <form> in HTML. [2] In the future, we may want to officially support such a concept of target window or frame in XForms. Purely out of familiarity with HTML, the name "target" would be an obvious choice. But if we use "target" now to specify the destination for data replacement, we won't be able to use that name. (Note that in our implementation, we already support an extension attribute called xxforms:target on xforms:submission and xforms:load, which behaves like its HTML counterpart.) For this reason I suggest that we change the name of this attribute in XForms 1.1. Suggestions are welcome, but "destination" could work. -Erik [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xforms11/#submit [2] http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/present/frames.html#adef-target -- Orbeon Forms - Web Forms for the Enterprise Done the Right Way http://www.orbeon.com/
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