- From: <Nick_Van_den_Bleeken@inventivegroup.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:27:11 +0200
- To: "Mark Birbeck" <mark.birbeck@formsPlayer.com>
- Cc: "Chris Lilley" <chris@w3.org>, karl@w3.org, "Maciej Stachowiak" <mjs@apple.com>, "Gregory J. Rosmaita" <oedipus@hicom.net>, public-forms-tf@w3.org, public-forms-tf-request@w3.org, Steven.Pemberton@cwi.nl
Hi, I'm Nick Van den Bleeken, and my company joined the XForms WG a couple of years ago. My company has a product that uses XForms in combination with XSL-FO and XHTML. I'm looking forward to work with you all. Regards, Nick Van den Bleeken - Research & Development Inventive Designers Phone: +32 - 3 - 8210170 Fax: +32 - 3 - 8210171 Email: Nick_Van_den_Bleeken@inventivegroup.com public-forms-tf-request@w3.org wrote on 08/30/2007 02:36:29 AM: > > 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. > -------------------------------------------------- Inventive Designers' Email Disclaimer: http://www.inventivedesigners.com/email-disclaimer
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