- From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- Date: Sun, 06 Nov 2005 04:15:55 -0500
- To: Joern Turner <joern.turner@web.de>
- CC: Vincent Berger <vincent.berger@afp.com>, Caroline Jarrett <caroline.jarrett@effortmark.co.uk>, www-forms@w3.org
Joern Turner wrote: > you asking for conformant, free-as-in-speech, multiplatform > implementations but what are you willing to give for that? Everybody > likes Open Source and free (of charge) implementations but hardly one > likes to actively support projects that try to deliver those > implementations be it with coding, publishing or (for gods sake) money. > I have indeed offered significant work to an open source XForms project. I was ignored. There are open source projects that are worth supporting, and there are open source projects that are written by rank amateurs who couldn't code their way out of a paper bag. Sadly, some of the open source XForms projects fall into the latter category. For what it's worth, I don't include Chiba and Orbeon in this class. Those I haven't used. I think those projects have problems too, but they're of a different nature. I'm not convinced of the feasibility, usability, or maintainability of a primarily server-side solution; but that's an argument for another thread. -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@metalab.unc.edu XML in a Nutshell 3rd Edition Just Published! http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian3/ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0596007647/cafeaulaitA/ref=nosim
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