- From: David Landwehr <david.landwehr@solidapp.com>
- Date: Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:33:24 +0200
- To: Erik Bruchez <ebruchez@orbeon.com>
- Cc: Xforms W3C WG <www-forms@w3.org>
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/ >
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