- From: Erik Bruchez <erik@bruchez.org>
- Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 15:58:58 +0100
- To: www-forms@w3.org
Mark, Excellent initiative! For sure the approach is good. I also think that not enough is done in general to promote XForm's "cool" factor. Let's work on improving this! -Erik (who will give a "live" XForms tutorial at ObjectWebCon tomorrow) Mark Birbeck wrote: > The first in what will be a new series of XForms tutorials is now online. > The 'Introduction to XForms', is available at: > > <http://skimstone.x-port.net/index.php?q=introduction-to-xforms> > > The structure is very different to other tutorials that we have written in > the past, in that it continually comes from the standpoint of what the > author wants to *do*. So it talks of "tooltips", "context sensitive help", > "hiding controls", "required values", "showing messages" and so on, and > avoids the usual discussions of device-independence, abstract controls, > accessibility, cross-platform, and XML (!) that often bog down introductory > tutorials. > > This approach was taken to counter the view that we seem to find that > 'XForms is difficult to learn'. (We've even come across this from people who > are teaching XForms!) You'll see from the tutorial that in fact XForms is > very easy to get up and running with, in a short amount of time. And I think > even experienced XForms users may be surprised to remind themselves just how > much XForms can do even at the 'simple' end. > > Forthcoming tutorials will go into XForms more deeply, and cover more > advanced concepts. But if you have colleagues that you have been meaning to > introduce to XForms, then you may find this 'gentle' introduction useful to > refer them to. > > Regards, > > Mark > > > Mark Birbeck > CEO > x-port.net Ltd. > > e: Mark.Birbeck@x-port.net > t: +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 > b: http://internet-apps.blogspot.com/ > w: http://www.formsPlayer.com/ > > Download our XForms processor from > http://www.formsPlayer.com/ > > >
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