- From: Sebastian Schnitzenbaumer <schnitz@mozquito.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Aug 2001 12:18:18 +0200
- To: "Bjoern Hoehrmann" <derhoermi@gmx.net>, "Jilani, Rashid" <rashid.jilani@sap.com>
- Cc: <www-forms@w3.org>
I agree that Microsoft and Netscape are unlikely to support XForms, but I very strongly disagree with the disruptive pseudo-quote "There is nothing called XForms, it's just a draft...". Only because Microsoft and Netscape do not support XForms, for whatever reasons, this is no indication at all whether XForms is a good idea, whether it solves an important problem and thus whether it has a market we will see products being offered for. Or the other way around: Even if Microsoft and Netscape *would* support XForms, how long would you think it would take until XForms can be used, ie. at least 80% of all browsers deployed out there have native XForms support? It would take several years, and no-one here is willing to wait until then, since XForms is needed, and needed now. XSLT, for example, took off quite well without Microsoft and Netscape ever implementing it in the browser. So can we all stop judging important standards and technologies based on Microsoft's interests and strategies for a moment? XForms is very similar to XSLT in the way that XForms as a concept can be implemented as a generic server-side transformation process, transcoding XForms into whatever you want and whatever the client can process. Since XForms is *very* flexible (Three parts: Model, Data Instance and UI, whereas every part in itself is flexible - use any arbitrary XML instance for data, use any existent or custom UI markup language for the UI, use a small subset, or all of XML Schema as the basis for the Model), we do not see a single implementation of XForms, but various depending on the specific needs. XForms is a highly modular, application level W3C technology with a million use cases, solving a simple problem by giving XML a standard, bi-directional Human-Computer-Interface framework other XML applications can build upon. Because of that, several companies have already customly implemented XForms in their software projects, leveraging the full power of XForms for them without having to wait for Microsoft and Netscape. All the best, Sebastian > -----Original Message----- > From: Bjoern Hoehrmann [mailto:derhoermi@gmx.net] > Sent: Friday, August 03, 2001 4:13 AM > To: Jilani, Rashid > Cc: 'www-forms@w3.org' > Subject: Re: NetScape/IE > > > * Jilani, Rashid wrote: > >Hi: Can any one inform me what are the stand of NetSacpe and > IE on XForms. > >Are they planning to support it for their nexr future release? > > My personal opinion is that this is __very__ unlikely, especially > because Microsoft hasn't announced XForms support [1] for IE 6 and > Netscape will release NN6.1 very soon. > > [1] There is nothing called XForms, it's just a draft... > -- > Björn Höhrmann { mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de } > http://www.bjoernsworld.de > am Badedeich 7 } Telefon: +49(0)4667/981028 { > http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de > 25899 Dagebüll { PGP Pub. KeyID: 0xA4357E78 } > http://www.learn.to/quote/ > >
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