- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com>
- Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 01:36:29 +0100
- To: "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>
- Cc: "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>, public-forms-tf@w3.org, karl@w3.org, Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
Hi Maciej, > Is there anybody out there? Could we start by > introducing ourselves? :) I'm Mark Birbeck, and I'm an Invited Expert on the XForms and XHTML 2 groups. My company develops formsPlayer, an IE plug-in that supports XForms, and Sidewinder, a desktop application framework based on web technologies. My focus within the XForms WG is about to become XForms 1.2, with a remit to try to simplify the mark-up as much as possible so that there is a smooth route for authors from HTML forms to XForms. The idea is not to lose the powerful features that stem from the MVC architecture, but to focus on providing abbreviations of the language that make it easier to learn. I volunteered for this task-force because I thought it would be good to see if we could make it so that there is a coherent and logical path through all of the W3C's forms languages, ideally one that would allow authors to adopt increasingly complex features as they need them, without having to throw away what they have learned, or code that they have previously written. I think this goal is achievable, and I don't think it's going to require any of the current forms languages to have to subsume themselves to any other. Of course, the proof of the pudding, as they say (at least in Britain) is in its eating. :) I look forward to working with you all. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, formsPlayer mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com | +44 (0) 20 7689 9232 http://www.formsPlayer.com | http://internet-apps.blogspot.com standards. innovation.
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