Factual error was Re: Brainstorming: Best of all Worlds

On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Ian Hickson wrote:

> Some people have suggested some features, like declarative calculations,
> but it isn't clear how those features would work (the XForms Transitional
> draft, as previously discussed, doesn't actually define how they would
> work for all cases -- according to the current definition, in fact, one
> would have to solve the halting problem to implement the spec). In the
> case of declarative calculations it is also not clear how the feature
> could be made to degrade gracefully without breaking full implementations.

You are incorrect on this point. Please re-read the XForms 
Transitional draft spec as I have clarified the wording based upon 
how my implementation works, and it should be noted that this has 
been tested on a much wider range of browsers than Web Forms 2.0 has 
at this point in time.


  Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> http://www.w3.org/People/Raggett

Received on Thursday, 22 March 2007 19:40:32 UTC