- From: Gerald Bauer <luxorxul@yahoo.ca>
- Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2003 14:56:33 -0400 (EDT)
- To: www-forms@w3.org
My statement that "I'm going to add XForms support (sanitized and cleaned-up)" to Luxor sparked some responses about my "arrogance". How dare I to break the XForms 1.0 spec without consulting the XForms committee? What about my responsibility to the XForms community? As others might be interested to hear my position too I will share it out in the open: I consider XForms 1.0 a draft even though W3C might call it a recommendation. Think about it as XForms 0.1. I will clean-up XForms and I hope and I encourage others do it too. Once real working XForms browsers/engines are out in the wild and in use the "real" XForms leaders can get together and hammer out a XForms 1.0 interop spec (call it XForms 2.0 or whatever). So if you have the good of the XForms community at heart and want to be taken serious, you better get an XForms browser/engine up and running or otherwise please step aside as a spec from a bunch of academics hardly will take off. To wrap it up, I don't believe in pre-mature standardization. Isn't it ironic that Tim Berners-Lee, himself, now heads an army of comittees that say no, no, no. Like in his old days at CERN? As the private answers to my mini-critique prove you can discuss endlessly about pro and cons of various minor features. But once you tell these know-it-alls to show off an open-source implementation they start running. Talk is cheap. If you're serious, show me the code. And please don't wait for miracles as Microsoft, IBM, Adobe or whatever industry giant won't do they coding for you. Remember, Microsoft just embraced and extented HTML because its core business was threatened by a startup, that is, Netscape. - Gerald ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca
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