- From: John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 07:58:42 -0700
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org>, www-archive@w3.org
- Message-ID: <OFA57571D6.E1129502-ON882572CA.004DF340-882572CA.00524802@ca.ibm.com>
Hi Dan, I would like to have a bit more written about it, perhaps incorporating the combined text from the HTML WG charter, the Forms WG charter and the vision document (http://www.w3.org/2007/03/html-forms-vision.html). How about this: ====================================== The HTML Working Group and the Forms Working Group are chartered to work together on a Joint Task Force to define the Forms component of the next version of HTML. The charters 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. It is a goal of this work to make it possible for document authors to recognize and understand the tags of an HTML Form, whether or not it uses an XML serialization. The current W3C Recommendation for Forms, XForms 1.0, has found success at meeting the more complex demands of forms in the enterprise market, whereas the Web Forms 2 work was designed to emphasize ease of authoring requirements. It is a goal for this work to draw on the Web Forms 2 work to assist with meeting ease of authoring requirements while also being aligned to the XForms architecture (following design principles such as the separation of presentation from content). This new deliverable, the XML serialization of which has been termed XForms Transitional, will therefore offer ease of authoring as well as a smooth upgrade path towards XForms as complexities of the forms application grows over time. ====================================== Cheers, John M. Boyer, Ph.D. STSM: Lotus Forms Architect and Researcher Chair, W3C Forms Working Group Workplace, Portal and Collaboration Software IBM Victoria Software Lab E-Mail: boyerj@ca.ibm.com Blog: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/blogs/page/JohnBoyer Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org> 04/26/2007 02:39 PM To John Boyer/CanWest/IBM@IBMCA cc www-archive@w3.org, Dave Raggett <dsr@w3.org> Subject draft: forms task force volunteers? (tasks survey) I had in mind something simple like this; what do you think, John? ---8<--- 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 HTML WG task survey includes a 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/ D3C2 887B 0F92 6005 C541 0875 0F91 96DE 6E52 C29E
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