- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 13:58:53 -0700
- To: Sander Tekelenburg <st@isoc.nl>
- Cc: public-html@w3.org
On Aug 21, 2007, at 7:35 AM, Sander Tekelenburg wrote: > > It's not very clear to me what exactly a "task force" is in W3C > context. What > exactly is expected of the Forms Task Force? My expectation is that the Forms Task Force is supposed to define some requirements for architectural consistency, which are then adopted by the forms facilities in HTML and XForms. As our charter says: "The HTML WG and the Forms Working Group will work together in this Task Force to ensure that the new HTML forms and the new XForms Transitional have architectural consistency and that document authors can transition between them." However, I'm not sure all task force participants will have the same expectation of what the task force should do. The Forms WG has the additional charter goal of making XForms Transitional a syntactic superset of HTML Forms. And some have proposed that the work of the Forms Task Force should be to somehow merge the two technologies into one thing that is published both as part of HTML and as XForms Transitional. Will the Chairs of the respective working groups set the expectation for the goals of the Force Task Force, or is the Forms Task Force going to determine that itself (presumably as the first order of business)? As for who should participate: I hate to think of things so politically, but to the extent that XForms and Web Forms 2 / HTML Forms are seen as opposing camps, it will be helpful to the legitimacy of the task force to have an equal number of advocates for the two positions. Ideally there would also be some who would be seen by both sides as neutral parties. I assume the representatives from the Forms WG will all be strong advocates of the XForms point of view. Are we on track to have a Forms Task Force whose composition will seem balanced to the participants and to outside observers? Regards, Maciej
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