forms task force volunteers? (tasks survey)

Our charter calls for a joint task force with the Forms Working group...

  The HTML WG and the Forms Working Group will work together in this
  Task Force to ensure that the new HTML forms and the new XForms
  Transitional have architectural consistency and that document
  authors can transition between them

  -- http://www.w3.org/2007/03/HTML-WG-charter.html


The Forms Working group Charter notes:

  Previous work on XForms 1.0 has found success in the enterprise
  market

  -- http://www.w3.org/2007/03/forms-charter.html

Meanwhile, the Web Forms 2 specification ...

  specifies an extension to the forms features found in HTML4's
  Forms chapter and the corresponding DOM2 HTML interfaces.

  HTML4, XHTML1.1, and the DOM are thus extended in a manner that has
  a clear migration path from existing HTML forms, leveraging the
  knowledge authors have built up with their experience with HTML so
  far.

  -- http://www.w3.org/TR/2006/WD-web-forms-2-20060821/


An architectural vision document released with the charters elaborates:

  The charter calls for two equivalent serializations to be developed,
  corresponding to a single DOM (or infoset, though tag soup cannot be
  considered to have an infoset currently, while it can have a
  DOM). This ensures that decisions are not made which would not
  preclude an XML serialization. It allows the two serializations to
  be inter-converted automatically. Having new language features,
  there is an incentive for content authors to use it; and having
  client-side implementations means that there is the possibility to
  really use it.

  -- http://www.w3.org/2007/03/vision.html


The HTML WG task survey includes a "forms task force" checkbox;
please check it if you'd like to participate.
  http://www.w3.org/2002/09/wbs/40318/tasks83/

-- 
Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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Received on Thursday, 3 May 2007 01:00:44 UTC