- From: Goodrich, Christopher Michael <cmgoodr@sandia.gov>
- Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 08:04:52 -0700
- To: www-forms@w3.org
Hi all. I've been "lurking" on the list for quite some time now because I'm wanting to find another way to interface with my xml files that display on my web pages. The reason I've been just sitting tight is primarily because implementing something new here takes a while, and I don't have the time to spare on something that isn't going to work with our currently implemented technology. I'm hoping the technology will get there (we have adopted Mozilla/Firefox on some platforms), but it's not there yet. The main reason I'm piping up now is this Myth list leaves me with really cold feet, but I'm not ready to just give up yet. Since I have not actually sat down to code anything in xforms yet, can someone give me a laymans explanation of what this means? I might have to get technical with the details of what I'm trying to do, but the simple explanation is I'd like a web-based interface to update, add, and delete records in a custom xml file residing on our corporate web server that has access restrictions. Currently we are using Infopath in the Office 2003 suite to do this (I hate this option). So can anyone explain if these myths seem to bring my hopes crashing down, or whether I should just hang on? Thank you, Christopher M Goodrich A+ Corporate Computing Help Desk Sandia National Laboratories Science Applications International Corporation cmgoodr@sandia.gov (505) 284-4797 -----Original Message----- From: www-forms-request@w3.org [mailto:www-forms-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Ian Hickson Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 7:29 AM To: jason Cc: www-forms@w3.org Subject: RE: XForms Myths Exposed - By Ian Hixie (Opera) On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, jason wrote: > > I think he makes some pretty reasonable points actually. Heh, thanks. > one thing I would say in XForms favour is that if you are using it for > x-platform compatibility, then as long as you stick to xforms (ie dont > use > script) then your app will run on any x-forms compatible renderer > (whethere is visually based or something else!) you just cant do that > with script. you would need a different version of the script for each > target. You shouldn't. While there may be some bugs in browsers that force you to have slightly different code (like there might be bugs in an XPath implementation that force you to do different XPath for different UAs), by and large scripts should work the same on all UAs. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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