XForms timer

• From: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
• Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 13:12:40 -0700
• To: Xforms W3C WG <www-forms@w3.org>
• Message-ID: <444E82B8.10808@orbeon.com>

All,

It is often useful to react to timed, possibly repeating, asynchronous
events. Use cases include:

o Auto-saving form data in the background at regular intervals.

o Doing polling for checking incoming email or chat messages.

o Doing polling for checking whether the currently edited document has
   been modified in the background by a third-party.

o Notifying a user that his session is about to expire or has expired
   (e.g. for banking).

o Bounding the time a user is allowed to fill-out a given form, for
   example with e-learning application, and automatically submitting
   the form and going to the next page after that delay has been
   reached.

I can see how a configurable xforms:timer element would perfectly fit
in the XForms philosophy, and I think that this should be built into
XForms.

In the meanwhile, have other implementors addressed this as an
extension?

-Erik

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Received on Tuesday, 25 April 2006 20:14:45 UTC