RE: call for client side processors

I was wondering, has anyone implemented Xform in the client using Flash??
Flash MX has good XML support & HTTP support...

Justin 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org]On
> Behalf Of Schulze, Matthias
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:47 PM
> To: 'www-forms@w3.org'
> Subject: call for client side processors
> 
> 
> 
> > I guess you could implement XSLT based XForms solution on 
> > client with only a limited functionality. 
> > Hoever, if you want to exploit the full power of XForms's 
> > processing model (E.g. bind computations, Xml events, dynamic 
> > constructs, etc.), existing html/xhtml browsers cann't be 
> > effectively used, unless you extend their functionality 
> > programmatically.
> 
> Until now I didn't implement any of the features you mentioned. But most
> certainly it can be done using the current implementations of DHTML,
> Javascript and DOM in IE or perhaps Mozilla.
> 
> 
> > There are a few solutions which try to map XForms to xhtml + Jscript,
> > considerably increasing size of the document and reducing the 
> > execution
> > speed. But, as we know, these solutions are only gap-fillers. 
> > 
> 
> I believe that the server based solutions are the gap fillers, 
> because 100%
> client side processors are
> 
>  a) much faster because they
>   a1) don't need a network roundtrip for every action
>   a2) only read data but no html
>   a3) may cache static xml data
>   a4) don't reparse the whole document all the time
> 
>  b) more secure because they a1) ... therefore the guys on
>     the server side (and nobody else on the web) can track
>     your actions
> 
>  c) still working (against local data) when you're offline 
> 
>  d) easier to implement because you don't have to use
>     HTTP GETs and POSTs
> 
>  e) easier to deploy because you don't need a web server
>     and/or servlet container
> 
> 
>   ** Anybody who likes to join in on my  **
>   ** IE6 + JS project is warmly welcome. **
> 
> 
> 
> Matthias
> 
> 
> 
> > Shailesh Karandikar
> > Dendrite Intl.
> > 
> > Alex,
> > 
> > all public xforms processors I know about run on the server 
> > side. My own
> > 100% client side "experiment" for IE6 is far away from beeing 
> > releasable. It
> > uses dhtml instead of xsl ( ... because it was the "shortest path" ;-)
> > 
> > greets
> > 
> > M.
> > 
> > > does anyone know of an example out there that uses 
> > > xforms in xhtml, and styled one the client side with 
> > > xsl?
> > > 
> > > thanks,
> > > -alex
> > > 
> > 
> 
> 
>

Received on Wednesday, 21 August 2002 12:02:39 UTC