- From: Dueck, Brian <bdueck@metasolv.com>
- Date: Tue, 6 May 2003 01:30:36 -0500
- To: "'www-forms@w3.org'" <www-forms@w3.org>
- Message-ID: <E8F1B37FC20ED74BAC2685B05C799714C6E1F6@srvtoemail.metasolv.com>
Hello; Wondering if anyone has given thought on how XForms addresses the common user need to "undo" a series of edits in historical sequence. For example, through an XForm, a user is editing some important information, realizes a mistake has been made, and needs to "undo" several of these edits. The result of each undo is the changes made for that edit to the XForms models are reversed. Perhaps some actions denote a commit point that cannot be undone and clears all prior edits - for example a submit. I can imagine this would be a very powerful feature for an XForms implementation to provide to its users. This would be especially nice if the Undo capability was done in such a way as to be zero effort for the XForm author. I believe end-users have come to expect undo from their commercial applications (e.g. office productivity apps, etc.), so why not address this requirment as part of the XForms spec? That way the behavior associated with an Undo is consistent from an end-user perspective as well as an XForms author perspective. Or if this does not need to be part of the spec perhaps the spec can at least explicitly say its up to implementations to provide this feature or not. Has this been addressed or discussed explicitly by the XForms spec groups? How about the XForms implementation community? Anyone stepping up to the plate to provide this feature? Thanks in advance, Brian.
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