- From: Anne van Kesteren <fora@annevankesteren.nl>
- Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 18:43:01 +0100
- To: "Goodrich, Christopher Michael" <cmgoodr@sandia.gov>
- CC: www-forms@w3.org
Goodrich, Christopher Michael wrote: > First, This article omits details that have come to light recently > regarding the support for xforms. Namely, the Mozilla foundation has > dropped their flagship suite in favor of the standalone applications > Firefox/Thunderbird (and quite possibly Sunbird as well, although it's > still in beta). Firefox currently has built in support for xforms in > it's nightly builds (not sure if this has been implemented in the 1.0.1 > release, but I suspect that was a security patch fix, not a feature > upgrade). This statement is false. Firefox has a plugin that enables support for XForms. It is not enabled by default, it has to be downloaded separately. And, not all is supported. > My vote still lies with xforms (ok, I'm being biased here) I don't like > Microshaft's proprietary ways and support open standards that make life > easier (scripting is definitely NOT easier). Since when is Web Forms 2.0 from Microsoft? Since when does it heavily rely on scripting? Perhaps you should read up a bit on both specification (and implementations) before giving comments on them. -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/>
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