- From: Gerald Bauer <luxorxul@yahoo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 22:24:51 -0500 (EST)
- To: www-forms@w3.org
Hi, I gave a VanX talk last week entitled "The Future of the Web: Rich Clients, Rich Browsers, Rich Portals: A Look at XUL, XForms, Curl, Rebol and other emerging technologies" that includes a brief intro to XForms and an XForms critique too. Here's a summary of the "What's wrong with XForms?" slide: * Watch your language - plain-English, please; no academese or jaron-filled mumbo jumbo * Markup bloat; don't overdo tags; allow attribute shortcuts * XML fever; don't replace scripting with bloated markup * Drop namespaces; ditch the useless bloat from core markup Full story @ http://vamphq.com/talk/vanx-mar-2003/slides.html I also might add that I'm going to add XForms support (sanitized and cleaned-up) to Luxor over the next couple of months. - Gerald PS: In case you wondered: What is Luxor? Luxor is a free, open-source XML User Interface Language (XUL) toolkit in Java that supports handpicked Mozilla XUL goodies and includes a web server, a portal engine (supporting RSS), a template engine (Velocity), a scripting interpreter (Python) and much more. ///////////////////// Gerald Bauer Luxor Project Lead - http://luxor-xul.sf.net The Richmond Post Editor - http://luxor-xul.sf.net/post ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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