Re: XForms timer

I really like the idea of a timer and I would be happy see see it as  
part of XForms.

Best regards,
David

Den Apr 26, 2006 kl. 8:16 PM skrev Erik Bruchez:

>
> Allan Beaufour wrote:
>> On 4/25/06, Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com> wrote:
>>> It is often useful to react to timed, possibly repeating,  
>>> asynchronous
>>> events.
>> Oh yes. Good of you to bring it up!
>>> 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.
>> I'm not 100% convinced that it belongs in XForms land. The host
>> language could have support for it, and events could trigger actions
>> in XForms. Is there something XForms specific that we need to handle
>> for it?
>
> Yes, an xforms:timer model element or control!
>
> If you can't do it directly with XForms, how do you do it, with  
> Javascript?
>
> I think that a timer should be an out-of-the-box component in a  
> future version of XForms, following the philosophy that we should  
> attempt to integrate very common usage patterns using declarative  
> markup.
>
> -- 
> Orbeon - XForms Everywhere:
> http://www.orbeon.com/blog/
>

Received on Thursday, 27 April 2006 03:33:39 UTC