- From: Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net>
- Date: Sat, 4 Aug 2007 21:18:40 -0400
- To: public-html@w3.org, Lachlan Hunt <lachlan.hunt@lachy.id.au>
- Cc: connolly@w3.org, chris.wilson@microsoft.com, John Boyer <boyerj@ca.ibm.com>
aloha, lachlan! thank you very much for the pointers... you wrote, quote: > Web Forms 2 was moved to the W3C a year ago under the Web > Application Formats Working Group. I'm fairly sure it will be > picked up by this working group in the future and integrated > into HTML5. unquote so, HTML5 won't address forms until some unknown date in the future? and what of the work that john boyer has already done? will that be considered when WF2 is considered? the only way that maintaining a seperate document for web forms is practical is if it plans on integrating XForms work into the HTML forms construct -- otherwise, why the gaping hole in the HTML5 spec? i fail to perceive how one can proceed without the other -- is there also a differences between HTML4x forms and WF2 forms document, as there is for HTML4x and HTML5? is the topic of forms to be addressed in the HTML5 design principles document, or will the continued disassociation between the 2 forms of forms require a seperate design principles document at some point in the nebulous future? with the advent of wikis and the proliferation of other forms-based interactive aspects of today's web, shouldn't forms reform be one of our top-level concerns? it certainly shouldn't be addressed seperately and in isolation from other aspects of HTML5, unless, of course, the working group is moving towards the modularization of HTML, which is, from what i've read on public-html, far from a desired outcome... so why the delay in addressing web forms, or at least integrating WF2 into the HTML5 draft, so that it can be discussed now, before any difference or design principle document is issued by the working group? gregory. ------------------------------------------------------------------ The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gregory J. Rosmaita <oedipus@hicom.net> Camera Obscura: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/index.html VICUG NYC: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/vicug/index.html Read 'Em & Speak: http://www.hicom.net/~oedipus/books/index.html ------------------------------------------------------------------
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