- From: Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com>
- Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:56:43 +0000
- To: "Ulrich Nicolas Lissé" <unl@dreamlab.net>
- Cc: "John Boyer" <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>, public-forms@w3.org
Hi Uli, > I prefer XFormsA and oppose to FormsA > > Even more I'd prefer something like XForms Basic, but that's already in > use for a profile. I find the uppercase "A" a bit awkward, but a > lowercase "a" is even more awkward, and "-a" is expected to perform > badly in terms of Google searches. Maybe XForms Compact could do the trick. I agree with you 110%. :) When we first started talking about this, I always saw the project as more of an "XForms-lite", or "XForms Tiny" type thing. Those kinds of names -- and your "XForms Compact" -- convey the sense of the spec being an easy on-ramp, at the same time that it is part of the big, happy, XForms, family. If I had to pick a preference, I'd probably go for XForms-lite. But I would also flag up the fact that we don't necessarily need a new name at all. This is because most web developers have not even heard of XForms. So creating a new document that describes a set of 'on-ramp' features, does not necessarily require us to come up with a new name for this spec. In fact, this new spec could just be an XForms Primer, or some such, that prioritises the on-ramp features in the interests of gaining wider interest in XForms amongst web developers and the Ajax community. Regards, Mark -- Mark Birbeck, webBackplane mark.birbeck@webBackplane.com http://webBackplane.com/mark-birbeck webBackplane is a trading name of Backplane Ltd. (company number 05972288, registered office: 2nd Floor, 69/85 Tabernacle Street, London, EC2A 4RR)
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