- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:26:15 -0700
- To: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On May 3, 2007, at 12:19 PM, T.V Raman wrote: > > Please re-read what I said carefully --- explicitly separated out > the requirement from how XForms does it today. In that case I am in total agreement. Apologies for the misunderstanding. - Maciej > > > > Maciej Stachowiak writes: >> >> On May 3, 2007, at 10:49 AM, T.V Raman wrote: >> >>> >>> Here's one more that is not called out explicitly in 1..8: >>> >>> 9) Given N controls that are inter-dependent, enable "O(N) >>> wiring" rather than requiring "O(N^2) wiring". >> >> This seems like a fine requirement with a practical effect. >> >>> In the XForms world, this is met by having a data model to which >>> controls are wired. In the interest of consistency, and for >>> enabling the smooth on-ramp from HTML Forms that Mark Birbeck >>> has elucidated earlier, we should ensure that an author who >>> starts off writing a plain old HTML Form (i.e. no explicit >>> data model) can later add in a data model and additional >>> wiring without having to re-author the entire form. >> >> I think this part, though, is more questionable. Having an explicit >> separate data model is one possible way of solving the problem, but >> surely not the only way. Adding this constraint on allowable >> solutions may overconstrain the problem, if we also want graceful >> degradation in HTML4 UAs. >> >> Regards, >> Maciej > > -- > Best Regards, > --raman > > Title: Research Scientist > Email: raman@google.com > WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ > Google: tv+raman > GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com > PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc >
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