- From: John J. Barton <John_Barton@hpl.hp.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2001 16:52:54 -0800
- To: XForms Mailing List <www-forms@w3.org>
At 03:10 PM 3/26/2001 -0800, Bruce Atherton wrote: (deleted stuff that clarified three tier nicely) >My concern, though, is that by assuming that the XForms UI components are >only working in a browser-type environment and providing only forms, you >lose the richness that other applications and clients may require. This is >why I was asking whether there were plans to support Windows and Dialog >Boxes. What I would like to see is the UI elements that forms would not >necessarily require, but that other applications would, supported within >XForms. Perhaps integrating XUL and XForms, for example. > >So far, I haven't seen much support for the UI requirements of more >general applications in the XForms spec. That is why I made that >(obviously unclear) comment. I hope I am wrong. Discussions of XFORMs and the documents about it take a rather narrow XFORMs-centered view, but I don't think that the technology is exclusive. Rather, I think XFORMs glues together data-input (downloaded instance) data-output (form submission), and data-update (UI+Logic) elements that can be mixed with other elements. Dialog boxes and multiple views are not defined by XFORMs but neither are they excluded. Their absence in the XFORMs spec. is a result of componentization. John. ______________________________________________________ John J. Barton email: John_Barton@hpl.hp.com http://www.hpl.hp.com/personal/John_Barton/index.htm MS 1U-17 Hewlett-Packard Labs 1501 Page Mill Road phone: (650)-236-2888 Palo Alto CA 94304-1126 FAX: (650)-857-5100
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