- From: Benjamin Hawkes-Lewis <bhawkeslewis@googlemail.com>
- Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 17:05:16 +0000
- To: Nuno Job <nunojobpinto@gmail.com>
- CC: public-forms@w3.org, www-forms@w3.org
Nuno Job wrote: > I've never used Adobe Forms but XForms is a international standard by > the W3C and therefor should not be compared to proprietary software. Assuming "Adobe Forms" means PDF forms, then we're talking about an open-to-all-implementors standard submitted to ISO[*], with wide cross-platform deployment including not only Adobe Reader but also client software not made by Adobe (e.g. Apple Preview and Foxit Reader). I wouldn't recommend it over HTML forms at all, but I don't think it's fair to dismiss in terms of proprietary software versus international standards. > So just use standard XHTML forms and you'll be ok. Or, better yet, standard /HTML 4.01/ forms supported by the most popular browser on earth. ;) [*] See: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd/archives/2007/01/pdf_governance.cfm http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS7542722606.html http://blog.fawny.org/2007/01/29/pdf-iso/ -- Benjamin Hawkes
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