Re: HTML forms, XForms, Web Forms - which and how much?

On May 1, 2007, at 2:42 AM, Dave Raggett wrote:

> It would be more helpful to talk in terms of the design patterns,  
> e.g. the utility of model-view-controller for decoupling UI from  
> the data and the benefits that brings to expressing integrity  
> constraints and data submission.

If you want to look at it from a design pattern perspective: The  
architecture of the web is best summarized as Representational State  
Transfer (REST), where the server hosts the model (a collection of  
resources) and what's sent to the client is a representations of  
particular resources, i.e. views.

That being said: I do see that XForms better supports a model-view  
separation by having direct support for a separate model, as opposed  
to HTML forms where an author would have to build his own model and  
attach it to controls in an ad-hoc way. But I haven't seen any  
proposal to add such features to HTL Forms. In particular, XForms  
Transitional does not appear to include any additional support for  
model-view separation.

Regards,
Maciej

Received on Tuesday, 1 May 2007 18:04:10 UTC