- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:40:44 -0800
- To: wiecha@us.ibm.com
- Cc: mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com, boyerj@ca.ibm.com, public-forms@w3.org, public-forms-request@w3.org, unl@dreamlab.net
I remember asking the same question last week -- or may be it was the week before -- just ship this as XForms 1.2 Charles F Wiecha writes: > > So how about making this just XForms 1.2 and pushing the other 1.2 stuff > into 1.3 or 2.0...Charlie > > Charles Wiecha > Manager, Multichannel Web Interaction > IBM T.J. Watson Research Center > P.O. Box 704 > Yorktown Heights, N.Y. 10598 > Phone: (914) 784-6180, T/L 863-6180, Cell: (914) 320-2614 > wiecha@us.ibm.com > > > > > From: "Mark Birbeck" <mark.birbeck@webbackplane.com> > > To: "Ulrich Nicolas Liss$(ÿ > > Cc: "John Boyer" <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>, public-forms@w3.org > > Date: 11/17/2008 10:03 AM > > Subject: Re: Straw poll on name of "streamlined syntax" spec > > Sent by: public-forms-request@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) > > -- Best Regards, --raman Title: Research Scientist Email: raman@google.com WWW: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/ Google: tv+raman GTalk: raman@google.com, tv.raman.tv@gmail.com PGP: http://emacspeak.sf.net/raman/raman-almaden.asc
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