- From: T.V Raman <raman@google.com>
- Date: Thu, 3 May 2007 12:19:41 -0700
- To: mjs@apple.com
- Cc: raman@google.com, public-html@w3.org
Please re-read what I said carefully --- explicitly separated out the requirement from how XForms does it today. Maciej Stachowiak writes: > > On May 3, 2007, at 10:49 AM, T.V Raman wrote: > > > > > Here's one more that is not called out explicitly in 1..8: > > > > 9) Given N controls that are inter-dependent, enable "O(N) > > wiring" rather than requiring "O(N^2) wiring". > > This seems like a fine requirement with a practical effect. > > > In the XForms world, this is met by having a data model to which > > controls are wired. In the interest of consistency, and for > > enabling the smooth on-ramp from HTML Forms that Mark Birbeck > > has elucidated earlier, we should ensure that an author who > > starts off writing a plain old HTML Form (i.e. no explicit > > data model) can later add in a data model and additional > > wiring without having to re-author the entire form. > > I think this part, though, is more questionable. Having an explicit > separate data model is one possible way of solving the problem, but > surely not the only way. Adding this constraint on allowable > solutions may overconstrain the problem, if we also want graceful > degradation in HTML4 UAs. > > Regards, > Maciej -- 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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