- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 13:06:08 +0100
- To: "Mark Birbeck" <mark.birbeck@x-port.net>
- Cc: "HTML WG" <public-html@w3.org>, www-forms@w3.org
On Mon, 18 Feb 2008 14:35:34 +0100, Mark Birbeck <mark.birbeck@x-port.net> wrote: > Speaking for myself, I don't see a strong case either way. I'm keen to > see XForms relate much more directly to 'traditional' HTML forms, so > that authors and implementers have a natural path from one to the > other. But whether that should encompass HTML 5 Forms I'm less certain > of--one could argue it both ways. It would be useful I think if the Forms WG could clarify its position on this. It has always been my understanding that the Task Force was formed because HTML Forms were not deemed acceptable. > (The 'for' is that it would of course be good if the W3C had a > coherent and consistent forms vision. But the 'against' is that the > design goals of HTML 5 seem to be quite different to the approach > being taken with language modularisation, illustrated by such things > as @role, RDFa, and now XForms, that this may simply not be possible.) The major showstopper as I see it is not feature-wise (@role, etc.) or how you write the language down (modularization or not), but how you deal with how <input> works today and how it works in XForms. How <form> works today and how it works in XForms, et cetera. Given that what's in HTML 4, DOM Level 2 HTML, and in browsers is more or less locked down (with the exception of experimental extensions of course) it seems impossible to bridge the gap. > I would suggest that the next step is for the XForms WG to get out a > draft of some of these ideas, and then you guys can take a look and > see if it works for you. Ok. By the way, is http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-forms/2008Feb/att-0080/2008-02-27.html#topic4 an accurate reflection of what was said, because XForms 1.2 is not an agreed deliverable of the Forms TF... -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>
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